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For the past five years, University researchers
have examined how living in smaller cities,
towns and rural areas influences the
development of young children.
Now, with a $12.8 million grant from the
National Institutes of Health, researchers at
the FPG Child Development Institute and
the School of Education will look at how well
these children make the transition to school.
The grant makes possible the continuation
of the largest study to date of how child
development is affected by rural life. Launched
five years ago, the Family Life Project has been
following families living in two geographical
areas with a high rate of poverty among
rural children — the African-American South
and Appalachia.
Researchers have followed 1,292 children
from birth in three counties in eastern
North Carolina and three counties in central
Pennsylvania to examine how differences in
children’s development are linked to variations
in temperament, family experience, community
structure, economic circumstances and ethnicity.
The second phase of the project will follow
these children as they enter school.
“Even though more than half of all poor
children live in rural areas, most of the
research about children living in poverty is
based on studies of urban children. Therefore,
policies designed to help children living in
poverty may not best meet the needs of those
living in rural areas,” said Lynne Vernon-
Feagans, the study’s principal investigator and
FPG fellow. “Our findings will have important
implications for local and national policies and
the services most needed by rural families.”
For example, geographic isolation is
a condition unique to rural living, said
Vernon-Feagans, who is also William C.
Friday Distinguished Professor of Early
Childhood, Intervention and Literacy and
professor of psychology.
The first phase of the Family Life Project
found that isolation was related to family
dynamics. Mothers had less instability with a
partner but worked more hours per week, and
many families had to travel long distances to
work and child care. This often led to poorer
child outcomes, although positive parenting
helped to offset the negative effects.
As the project moves forward, researchers
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Grant will allow rural life study to continue
First-grader Martin Rayo works
with teacher Kristy Kane during
a reading session at Louisburg
Elementary School. Although
the literacy initiative is not part
of the new study by the FPG
Child Development Institute
and the School of Education,
it is aimed at a similar goal:
helping children in rural areas.
Through the new National
Institutes of Health-funded
study, researchers will exam-ine
how young children in rural
areas and small towns make
the transition to school.
In a recent State of the University speech,
Chancellor James Moeser described private funds
as the fuel that propels a university to greatness.
With the close of the Carolina First
Campaign, which raised a record $2.38 billion
over the past eight years, the University has
surpassed expectations in that quest.
“This campaign shows that we have not gone
from good to great; we have gone from good
to pre-eminent,” Moeser told the Board of
Trustees at its Jan. 24 meeting.
Not only did Carolina First set a University
record, it was also the fifth-largest completed
campaign in higher education and the largest
completed fundraising drive at a university in
the South. A $9 million pledge to the School of
Pharmacy from Fred Eshelman of Wilmington
pushed the campaign to that historic mark. (See
related story on page 2.)
“The campaign’s success attests to the
tremendous leadership of our volunteers and the
hard work of so many of our faculty and staff,”
Moeser said. “Thanks to them and our donors,
Carolina First has provided us with a margin
of excellence that will enable us to be of even
greater service to our students, as well as citizens
here in North Carolina, across the nation and
around the globe.”
Carolina First, which supported Carolina’s
vision to be the nation’s leading public university,
began July 1, 1999, and ended Dec. 31, 2007.
The original $1.8 billion goal was raised to
$2 billion in October 2005. Last February, a
$50 million pledge from Dennis Gillings, chief
executive officer of Quintiles Transnational, and
his wife, Joan, to support the School of Public
Health pushed the campaign past its goal.
Each professional school and unit exceeded
individual goals as well. The campaign also
boasted yearly records for commitments ($363.6
million), including pledges, and gifts ($250.8
million), both set in fiscal year 2007.
The final $2.38 billion raised included:
n $419.5 million for faculty, including 208
new endowed professorships, eight more than
the goal;
n $345.2 million for students, including 577
new merit and need-based scholarships and 196
new graduate fellowships;
n $579.7 million for research;
n $654.7 million for strategic initiatives; and
n $184.2 million for facilities.
Nearly every publicly funded building now
includes private support as well, Moeser said.
The master plan for Carolina North,
along with a concept plan for an Innovation
Center that would serve as its gateway
project, shared center stage at the Chapel
Hill Town Council meeting on Jan. 23.
Jack Evans, executive director of Carolina
North, said the twin presentations of the
master plan and a concept plan for the In-novation
Center were important steps for the
town’s approval. Both marked a culmination
of months of planning on a host of fronts.
In spring 2006, Chancellor James Moeser
appointed a cross-section of University
administrators and trustees, elected leaders and
community representatives to a Leadership
Advisory Committee (LAC) for Carolina
North that over a series of meetings arrived
at a broad consensus of underlying principles
to guide development. The committee also
identified other areas, such as the scope of
housing to be built on the property.
With these principles in place, the
University embarked over the past year on
what Evans described as a series of parallel
processes that have reached, or are soon to
reach, a conclusion.
Other parts of the process include a fiscal
equity study to measure the interplay of
financial costs and benefits of Carolina North
on the town and a major transit study to explore
transportation alternatives that would lessen the
dependence on cars.
Other completed studies include infra-structure
needs and an ecological study of
the entire 963-acre tract to ensure that envi-ronmentally
sensitive areas, especially water-sheds,
remain undeveloped and protected.
Evans has also led a series of community
forums sponsored by the University. The
purpose of these meetings was not only to
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Pledge generates
$18 million for
cancer research
Fred Eshelman may not have intended to
propel the Carolina First Campaign into the
history books, but his $9 million pledge to the
School of Pharmacy did just that. The University
now has completed
the fifth-largest cam-paign
in higher educa-tion
and the largest at
a southern university.
The board of North
Carolina’s University
Cancer Research Fund
matched the pledge,
generating a total investment of $18 million.
The funds will support cancer research by the
School of Pharmacy and the UNC Lineberger
Comprehensive Cancer Center that focuses on
genetics, individualized cancer therapy, drug
discovery and drug delivery.
Calling the Eshelman pledge another
great example of public-private partnership,
Chancellor James Moeser said it also
showed the significant impact of leveraging
commitments from multiple sources.
“Dr. Eshelman’s support epitomizes what
this campaign has been all about,” Moeser said.
“Carolina First truly transformed this university.
Every dollar has made us a stronger institution,
and every donor has our deepest gratitude.”
Eshelman is CEO and founder of
Wilmington-based PPD Inc., a global contract
research organization providing discovery,
development and post-approval services as
well as compound partnering programs to the
biopharmaceutical industry.
His latest pledge builds on his $20 million
commitment to the School of Pharmacy in
2003. That marked the largest commitment
ever to a U.S. pharmacy school.
Bob Blouin, dean of the School of Pharmacy,
said that Eshelman wanted to keep the school
moving forward. He pointed to NIH funding
to the school as an example of its progress.
In 2003, the school ranked 22nd among the
nation’s pharmacy schools in NIH funding.
Last year it had climbed to eighth.
“Thanks to the support of generous donors,
our aggressive pursuit of research funding and
partners like Lineberger, we have had great
success in attracting really top-flight scientists to
the school over the past few years,” Blouin said.
“That kind of effort puts considerable strain
on resources, and we expected that it would take
five years to have all our new centers working at
full capacity,” he said. “Dr. Eshelman wanted to
significantly shorten that time frame.”
Moeser said Eshelman’s commitment marked a
“particularly appropriate high note to go out on.”
Carolina students step up water conservation
Students in Carolina’s residence halls
are taking shorter showers — judging
from the first month’s results of the Water
Conservation Challenge, the contest
between Carolina’s on-campus
residents and their counterparts at
N.C. State to see which campus can
save the most water in residence halls.
Before the contest kicked off
Nov. 10, administrators at each school
determined a baseline water use per
student per day: 34 gallons at UNC,
31 at N.C. State. The competition’s
three criteria and results for the first
month are:
n Decrease in gallons of water used
per student per day — four gallons at
both campuses;
n Average water use per student per
day — 30 at UNC, 27 at N.C. State;
and an
n Overall reduction in gallons of water
used per student per day — 12 percent at
UNC, 13 percent at N.C. State.
In remarks to the Board of Trustees
last week, both Chancellor James Moeser
and Student Body President Eve Carson
reiterated the importance of conservation.
“Students in campus housing are continu-ing
to conserve, engaging in some friendly
competition with their peers at N.C. State,
but Trustee Carson and I are hoping to
encourage our students to do even more,”
Moeser said. “The contest ends Feb. 20 so
we need our students to keep their focus
on water conservation. We’re hoping for a
strong performance during this last phase
of the competition.”
When the contest ends, the school that
leads in at least two of the three categories
will be declared the winner. Updates for the
second month of competition and the final
results will be posted at rha.unc.edu.
The student competition, while under-taken
in the spirit of fun, emphasizes the
ongoing need for the campus and
local communities to conserve water.
The Triangle area has been in a severe
drought since last summer with no
immediate relief in the forecast.
As of Jan. 25, local reservoirs were
at about 40 percent of capacity, with
an estimated 205 days of water on
hand based on the average demand
in the last 30 days and assuming no
additional rainfall.
Water-saving tips from the
University’s Sustainability Office and
the Orange Water and Sewer Authority,
which provides water to the Chapel
Hill-Carrboro area including the
University, include: turning off water
while shampooing, shaving and
brushing teeth; collecting bath/shower water
while it heats up to use for watering plants;
not leaving water running while washing
dishes; cutting down on laundry loads and
running only full loads; using dry clean-up
methods whenever possible; and reporting
any plumbing leaks in residence halls
to Facilities Services Housing Support,
966-2471, or fixmyroom@fac.unc.edu.
Chancellor search ahead of other AAU campuses
The search for the University’s next
chancellor is ahead of most other Association
of American Universities (AAU) member
campuses with vacancies.
“We’re far in front of almost all of them,”
consultant Bill Funk told the Chancellor
Search Committee at a Jan. 24 meeting.
Funk, who heads the Dallas-based R.
William Funk and Associates, briefed the
committee about recent developments with
searches across the nation and the South.
Among AAU campuses, private Vanderbilt
University is “probably the one institution on
a similar timeline” with Carolina, Funk said.
Among public AAU campuses, the
University of Wisconsin at Madison has
not yet formed a search committee to seek a
successor to Chancellor John Wiley,
who last month announced plans to step
down in September following a nearly
eight-year term.
Funk, hired last fall by the committee,
specializes in searches at AAU campuses. The
AAU is an organization of research universities
devoted to maintaining a strong system of
academic research and education.
Among other searches, Funk cited
one to lead the 10-campus University of
California system. But he said this position
was far different than Carolina’s because of
responsibilities including managing three
national laboratories.
Funk’s firm was also retained by the UC
system to identify a successor to President
Robert Dynes following his announcement
last August about stepping down.
Funk also speculated about potential
university system and campus tensions as
factors in new vacancies at Louisiana State
University in Baton Rouge and the University
of Tennessee at Knoxville.
Sean O’Keefe, LSU chancellor since 2005,
resigned earlier this month effective June
1, and the system president will appoint an
acting chancellor starting Feb. 1.
Also this month, UT-Knoxville Chancellor
Loren Crabtree jointly announced with
the system president an immediate
resignation. An interim chancellor has
been named.
At the flagship University of Arkansas
at Fayetteville, Chancellor John White
announced his plans to retire later this year
after 11 years in office. The system president
recommended the university’s current vice
chancellor for university advancement to
become the next chancellor. Campus trustees
approved the appointment, effective July 1,
last Friday.
At the University of South Carolina,
President Andrew Sorenson has announced
his retirement plans, effective July 31, after
six years in office. A search committee began
meeting in mid-January.
“It’s a pretty active president and chancellor
marketplace right now,” Funk told the
University’s search committee members.
Additional meetings are scheduled in
February and March.
Water Watch
january 30, 2008 3
They have been called compliance point
guards, although they are reluctant to use that
metaphor. Juliann Tenney and Sherrie Settle
prefer to think of themselves as comprehensive
project managers.
However you describe them, the two women
who lead the University’s new Research
Compliance Office provide guidance on regula-tory
laws as University researchers navigate the
path from research concept to clinical trial.
“Compliance is an awkward nomenclature
for what should be expressed as doing the right
thing or following the rules,” said Tenney,
director of the office and institutional
research compliance officer. “At UNC we have
aspirational objectives to do the best job we
can, not just the job we are required to do.”
The people who run the trial — an experiment
that can involve either people or animals —
need to be aware of regulatory guidelines and
laws governing how the research should be
conducted, she said.
The same is true for the groups that approve,
monitor and review the experiments for
ethics and safety: the Institutional Review
Board (IRB) for human subjects and the
Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee
(IACUC) for animals.
“These groups, which are made up of
people within the institution and from the
community, represent the real conscience of
the institution,” Tenney said.
Typically, researchers and regulators know
the minutiae of the regulations very well, she
said. The Research Compliance Office wants
to create a process that supports those efforts
and forges a partnership.
Supporting the research process
Tenney and Settle, the office’s assistant
director and the conflict of interest officer,
step in to develop systems to help people
understand operational responsibilities and
create mechanisms to ensure that they are
performed effectively.
“We don’t ‘do compliance to people,’ which
is what people sometimes think,” Tenney
said. “Researchers are responsible for running
a compliant process and we’re here to help
make sure that happens.”
With its roots in the Office of University
Counsel, the Research Compliance Office be-came
a separate entity when Tenney and Settle
came on board last year. The office reports
directly to Chancellor James Moeser, but is also
guided by Leslie Strohm, vice chancellor and
general counsel, and Tony Waldrop, vice chan-cellor
for research and economic development.
Compliance issues run the gamut from privacy
and consent to the health, safety and ethical
treatment of participants to conflict of interest.
“All institutions are dealing with conflict
of interest because we want to be sure that
research isn’t biased due to a financial or
even a university interest,” Tenney said.
“We want the research to be pure, meaning
uncluttered by other considerations of financial
improvement or enhancement.”
Ideally, the work of the Research Compliance
Office is so interwoven into the research
process that people interact with the office
without even knowing it, Settle said.
For instance, the conflict of interest report-ing
system, which the office launched Jan. 2,
walks investigators through a series of screening
questions when they submit a proposal to
RAMSeS, the Office of Research Information
Systems’ online research proposal tool.
“It is a very simple six-question radio button
process,” Settle said. “When they use it,
researchers have actually already interfaced
with our office, but from their perspective they
are just finishing their research proposal. And
that’s the way it should be.”
In that same unobtrusive manner, the
compliance officers delve into relevant laws and
regulations whenever issues or concerns arise.
“Our mantra is to be audit-ready all the
time, so if it should happen that a review
occurs, our goal is to get through it successfully,”
Tenney said.
Wide range of experience
While the University’s office is new, both
Tenney and Settle are veterans when it comes
to research oversight.
Settle joined the office last May after a decade
in the School of Pharmacy, where she served
as grants management officer, then as admin-istrative
director for research and graduate
education. In 2005, she received a UNC
Excellence in Research Administration Award
in honor of her work.
Before coming to Carolina, Settle worked
in research programs at Virginia Tech, the
University of Pittsburgh and the University
of Virginia. She holds a bachelor’s degree in
English from Virginia and master’s degrees in
business administration and health administra-tion
from Pittsburgh.
Tenney, who joined the office in July, held
similar positions at Duke University for nearly
10 years. After designing and leading the
medical school’s compliance initiative for six
years, she became the first director of Duke’s
Institutional Ethics and Compliance Program.
Tenney earned her bachelor’s degree
in English and history at Carolina and her
law degree at Duke. Her private practice
experience focused on general civil law, and
she worked in the public sector as assistant
secretary of the N.C. Department of
Commerce, director of corporate and economic
development of the N.C. Biotechnology
Center and head of the Southern Growth
Policies Board before heading to Duke.
Although Carolina is much larger than Duke,
UNC system explores greater flexibility in
managing human resources programs
The Employee Forum on Jan. 9 discussed
the implications of a draft proposal from a
21-member human resources task force that
would give universities in the UNC system
greater flexibility to develop and manage
human resources programs.
The task force was composed of representa-tives
from each of the 16 campuses and included
chancellors, provosts, chief financial officers,
human resource officers, faculty and staff.
Charles T. “Chuck” Brink, a former
Employee Forum member who now represents
Carolina on the UNC system’s Staff Assembly,
made the presentation.
UNC President Erskine Bowles appointed
the task force to examine the application of
the State Personnel Act to the UNC system,
with the following goals:
n Improve the ability of the UNC system to
attract, reward and retain high-quality employees;
n Enable the UNC system to better meet
the needs of its employees; and
n Improve the efficiency of the UNC
system personnel operations.
According to an executive summary of
the draft report Brink presented, the task
force will recommend that the UNC system
request legislation granting it authority to
create “substantially equivalent” human
resource programs, subject to the approval of
the Office of State Personnel and the State
Personnel Commission.
Forum Chair Ernie Patterson said this was
a complex, important issue and that forum
members should try to understand the pro-posal’s
implications if it should go into effect.
A key issue, he said, was to understand pre-cisely
what “substantially equivalent” means.
Brink said the UNC system decided to seek
greater flexibility under the State Personnel
Act after conducting an internal study in 2006–
07 to determine the feasibility of creating a
separate personnel system for all UNC system
campuses. That idea was ultimately rejected.
If Bowles signs off on the task force’s pro-posal,
it could be presented to the UNC Board
of Governors in February. If approved by the
BOG, the idea would be forwarded for consid-eration
in March to the N.C. General Assembly.
Other action, information
In other action, the forum voted unani-mously
to approve a resolution requesting
that Chancellor James Moeser institute a
moratorium on any new outsourcing that
would result in a reduction in force until
formal policies and guidelines are in place to
address all legal and policy matters related
to outsourcing.
In another matter, Jack Evans, executive
director of Carolina North, gave an
hour-long presentation on the project.
Evans reiterated that Carolina North would
address the University’s need for space now
that the main campus is fully built. In addition,
he said, it will help strengthen the University’s
research links with the private sector.
Currently, Carolina ranks 97th in attract-ing
private funds to support research, he said.
Carolina North will be a key to improving
that ranking.
University officials had an informal
conversation with the Chapel Hill Town
Council about Carolina North on Jan. 13 and
made a formal presentation to the council at its
Jan. 23 meeting. (See story on page 1.)
See Compliance, page 13
EMPLOYE E FORUM
Faculty contribute
to Carolina First
campaign success
When it comes to fundraising, success helps
breed success.
The recently completed Carolina First cam-paign,
which brought in a record $2.38 billion,
created 208 new endowed professorships, eight
more than the goal. The success of that effort
was due in large part to the stature of Carolina’s
faculty, Matt Kupec, vice chancellor for Univer-sity
advancement, told the Faculty Council at its
Jan. 25 meeting.
“You are our shining star that helped us be
able to recruit and retain outstanding faculty
members,” he said.
Besides being the fifth-largest completed
campaign in the nation, the eight-year fundrais-ing
effort exceeded expectations in many areas.
Every professional school and unit surpassed
its individual goal, and the percentage of money
contributed by Carolina’s alumni exceeded the
national average. Alumni donations made up
36 percent of the campaign goal, compared to
28 percent nationwide.
“At Carolina, we are blessed to have some
very loyal alumni who want to give back
and make sure future generations have the
opportunity to thrive here,” Kupec said.
Through two new committees, the University
strengthened its ties to women, recruiting
105 women to serve on boards across campus,
and to minorities, adding 62 minority members
to Carolina’s Board of Visitors during the course
of the campaign. In turn, those groups yielded
many new donors — 18,000 additional female
donors in the past three years and 4,300 new
minority donors between 2000 and 2006.
Even with the campaign’s success, Kupec
said, the University has to look toward its next
campaign, probably in 2011.
“If we’re going to make this a better state,
nation and world, we can’t afford to stop engaging
our alumni in the life of this institution,” he said.
“We want to continue to showcase the things
you are doing. The key is really to talk about
what you’re doing every day; it doesn’t matter
whether we’re in a campaign or not.”
Bernadette Gray-Little, executive vice
chancellor and provost, said that one priority
for the next fundraising campaign would be
graduate student fellowships.
“The Graduate School has raised private
funds for fellowships, and we have dramatically
more than we did five years ago,” she said, “but
it still is not enough.”
Other action
The council unanimously approved support
for a campuswide sabbatical program and agreed
to begin a dialogue about how such a program
could be structured.
Harvey Seim, associate professor of marine
sciences and chair of the Faculty Research Com-mittee,
said most peer institutions had regular
sabbatical programs. He presented the idea as a
way to help grow Carolina’s research enterprise.
The University has set as a priority generating
$1 billion in annual external funding by 2015.
“The committee thought a sabbatical
program could provide time to think, which
University creates research compliance partner
See Faculty Council, page 13
FACULTY COUNCIL
4 University Gazette
Mellon Foundation funds innovative interdisciplinary civil rights scholarship
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation of New
York will support a collaborative effort on civil
rights between the University and UNC Press.
The three-year, $937,000 grant will support “
Publishing the Long Civil Rights Movement,”
a project that, through print and digital
publications, will underscore one of Carolina’s
longstanding academic
priorities: interdisciplinary
civil rights scholarship.
The four principal investi-gators
who will lead the proj-ect
are Kate Douglas Torrey,
director of the UNC Press;
Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, direc-tor
of the Southern Oral His-tory
Program in the Center
for the Study of the Ameri-can
South; Julius Chambers,
director of the Center for
Civil Rights in the School
of Law; and Richard Szary,
associate university librarian
for special collections.
The grant to Carolina
is part of a larger program
at the Mellon Foundation
intended to advance hu-manistic
scholarship by de-veloping
new and thought-ful
ways of connecting
the publishing activities
of university presses with
the academic priorities of
their universities. Other
grants in this program have
been made to the Univer-sity
of Minnesota and the
University of Pennsylvania.
Hall’s essay, “The Long
Civil Rights Movement
and the Political Uses of
the Past,” delivered as her
presidential address to the
National Organization of
American Historians, provided a foundation
for the Mellon grant.
An expanded framework
A central theme of Hall’s essay was that the
narrative of the Civil Rights Movement had
been erroneously limited to the tumultuous
decade between the 1954 Supreme Court
decision Brown v. Board of Education, which
made school segregation illegal, and the Civil
Rights Act of 1964.
Hall argued that the “long Civil Rights
Movement” began with the liberal and radical
milieu of the late 1930s and continued with
current national issues, including the political
and legal backlash leading to a resegregation of
schools and neighborhoods and that threatened
the social aims inherent in the Brown decision.
Hall, in effect, widened the window of civil
rights in both time and geography to include
contemporary issues such as race and the public
schools, economic justice, and the women’s and
gay rights movements.
In so doing, Hall sought to debunk popularized
notions of the Civil Rights Movement that,
in effect, diminished its lasting meaning and
obscured its continuing power and relevance.
“By confining the civil rights struggle to the
South, to bowdlerized heroes, to a single halcyon
decade, and to limited, non-economic objectives,
the master narrative simultaneously elevates
and diminishes the movement,” Hall wrote.
“It ensures the status of the classical phase
as a triumphal movement in a larger American
progress narrative, yet it undermines its gravi-tas.
It prevents one of the most remarkable mass
movements in American history from speaking
effectively to the challenges of our time.”
Expanding the narrative to the events that
came before and after the classically defined
Civil Rights Movement, Hall argued, will
reinforce the moral authority of those who
fought for change in those years.
“At the same time,” she wrote, “I want to
make civil rights harder. Harder to celebrate as a
natural progression of American values. Harder
to cast as a satisfying morality tale. Most of all,
harder to simplify, appropriate and contain.”
With these concerns in mind, the Southern
Oral History Program, which Hall directs,
began gathering interviews on the “long Civil
Rights Movement” throughout the South,
focused especially on school desegregation and
re-segregation, economic justice and various
social movements that grew out of the Civil
Rights Movement in the 1970s and 1980s.
Opening rich possbilities
Torrey said that in addition to challenging
the conventional understanding of the
chronology of the Civil Rights Movement, the
grant-funded project would be challenging the
usual geographic, demographic and thematic
definitions of civil rights.
“We can also see how the oral history
component will open up all kinds of rich
possibilities,” Torrey said. “Through this grant,
we will be able to explore new opportunities
for linking audio materials with textual materi-als
and photographs to reinforce and illuminate
scholarly and legal analysis.”
Chambers, whose legal career spans much of
the long history of civil rights that Hall seeks to
reveal, said he was excited about the possibility
the grant would afford to allow scholars from
across campus to share ideas and work together
to bring new insights to intractable problems.
Chambers, who is perhaps the nation’s most
renowned school desegregation attorney, said
he had a particular interest in exploring the neg-ative
effect that recent resegregation has had on
educational opportunities for children.
For 15 years, Chambers worked with com-munity
groups in Charlotte to chart the course
of Swann v. Charlotte/Mecklenburg Board of
Education, a case that eventually made Char-lotte
a national leader in school desegregation.
In his current work, Chambers is monitoring
recent court rulings that undermine the legal
underpinnings of desegregation.
“I have always been interested in forging col-laborations
with the different disciplines,” Cham-bers
said. “This grant will help tremendously,
both by making it easier to communicate more
effectively and by encouraging more disciplines
to become involved with our work at the center.”
Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Ber-nadette
Gray-Little said Carolina and UNC
Press are eminently qualified to tell the expand-ed
story of civil rights that Hall’s work envisions.
“The University and UNC Press share a rich
history and national reputation for the study and
documentation of the Civil Rights Movement
in the United States,” Gray-Little said. “Within
the University our expertise spreads across
disciplines and programs, from the well
established Southern Oral History Program in
the Center for the Study of the American South
to the relatively new Center for Civil Rights at
the UNC Law School.”
Advancing University priorities
Gray-Little said the focus on the long Civil
Rights Movement would directly advance
many of the University’s academic priorities,
including efforts to extend interdisciplinary
research, education and public service.
Torrey said Carolina, as the oldest public
university in the nation, and
the UNC Press, as the oldest
university publishing house
in the South, are recognized
nationally for a commit-ment
to public service and
exploring controversial issues
that challenge personal and
public thinking.
Since the late 1920s,
UNC Press has sustained an
ongoing program of books
by and about African-Amer-icans,
she said, and this grant
will build on the press’s
robust and progressive
publishing program.
“We are very pleased
about this outstanding Mel-lon
Foundation grant that
will help to strengthen the
collaboration between UNC
Press and UNC-Chapel Hill.
This enhanced collaboration
will create an exciting oppor-tunity
to generate some im-portant
work about the Civil
Rights Movement,” said
Harold Martin, UNC sys-tem
senior vice president for
academic affairs and member
of the Board of Governors
of UNC Press, an affiliate
unit of the UNC system.
Through the grant, Tor-rey
hopes to align UNC
Press with the strengths
of the University to create
a powerful platform that could serve as a
catalyst for collaboration and shared capital
investment in University-based publishing.
Torrey, who has been director of UNC
Press since 1992, said the press has long been
a leader in making its titles available to libraries
in non-print as well as traditional ink-on-paper
formats. Still, Torrey said, economic pres-sures
have limited the extent to which the press
can experiment with different digital forms.
“The expertise and the dollars involved in
entering the digital arena present a high hurdle
for university presses,” Torrey said. “The Mellon
Foundation has given us support to experiment.”
Digital publishing platform
Szary said the University Library, the Southern
Oral History Program and UNC Press would
bring a complementary set of expertise and skills
to the project. Szary was hired in fall 2006 to the
newly created position of director of the Louis
Round Wilson Library and associate university
librarian for special collections.
The Wilson Library collections include
the Manuscripts Department (comprising
the Southern Historical Collection, Southern
Folklife Collection, and University Archives),
the North Carolina Collection (including the
North Carolina Collection Gallery and Photo-graphic
Archives) and the Rare Book Collection.
See Mellon, page 12
CHAMBERS
Director of the UNC Center for
Civil Rights, Chambers gradu-ated
first in his class from Car-olina’s
School of Law in 1962.
In 1964, he opened his law
practice in Charlotte. Cham-bers
and his partners argued
a number of civil rights cases
before the U.S. Supreme Court,
including the landmark Swann
v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg
Board of Education. He also
led the NAACP Legal Defense
and Educational Fund Inc.
before serving as chancellor
of N.C. Central University.
hal
Founder and director of
the Southern Oral History
Program, Hall is a former
president of the Organiza-tion
of American Historians
and the Southern Historical
Association and was the
founding president of the
Labor and Working Class
History Association. In 1997,
she received UNC’s Distin-guished
Teaching Award for
graduate teaching, and in
1999 she was awarded a Na-tional
Humanities Medal for
her work.
szary
Director of the Louis Round
Wilson Library and associate
University librarian for special
collections, Szary is responsi-ble
for merging the individual
collections into an integrated
special collections library for
current and future needs. He
also administers the library’s
expanding digital collections
department. Szary came to
UNC in 2006 from the Yale
University Library and previ-ously
from the Smithsonian
Institution’s Office of Informa-tion
Resource Management.
torey
Director of UNC Press since
1992, Torrey had previously
served as the press’s assistant
director and editor-in-chief. She
came here from her post as
editor-in-chief at the University
Press of Kansas. A former
president of the Association of
American University Presses
and Women in Scholarly Pub-lishing,
Torrey earned a B.A.
from Stanford University and
an M.A. from the University of
Chicago and completed work
toward a Ph.D. from the Univer-sity
of Massachusetts, Amherst.
january 30, 2008 5
keep elected officials, University employees
and area residents updated on the latest
developments, but also to respond to concerns
and incorporate suggestions as the plan
has evolved.
Complicating this interplay of perspectives
and expectations between the town and the
University is the Innovation Center and
the University’s desire to have it approved
through a special-use permit before the town
approves the master plan, which would guide
development of a 250-acre parcel of Carolina
North over the next 50 years.
The 85,000 square-foot building is de-signed
to hold wet and dry laboratory
space, office space and technical and busi-ness
development resources designed to
successfully identify, evaluate and launch
new companies across many different areas
within the University’s research programs.
It will also include space for the University’s
Office of Technology as well as space to
accommodate large conferences.
Comments at the council meeting
Evans said the Jan. 23 meeting marked the
first time community members have had an
opportunity to comment while the council was
in session, but the eighth time they have had an
opportunity to comment on either the master
plan or the Innovation Center.
Of the 16 speakers at the meeting, all but
four were strongly in favor of the building,
including many who expressed support and
excitement about the jobs it would create
for Chapel Hill’s “creative class” of workers.
Too many such workers now leave town
for Raleigh and Research Triangle Park to
find employment commensurate with their
skills. The emergence of Carolina North,
beginning with the Innovation Center, could
begin to change that, they said.
Newly elected council member Matt
Czajkowski pointed out that the Innovation
Center touched almost all of his goals for
Chapel Hill and that he would like to see a
review process started quickly.
For Evans and University architect Anna
Wu, the council meeting marked the second
time that day they made presentations
before equally crucial audiences — Evans
to review the master plan, Wu to review an
architectural rendering of a concept plan for
the Innovation Center at the University’s
Building and Grounds Committee.
The reactions of council members and
trustees were starkly different.
Trustees are eager to see the process
move beyond “talk,” in board Chair Roger
Perry’s words.
Many trustees are painfully aware that the
University has been talking about developing
Carolina North for more than a decade.
The formation of the LAC, and the
community meetings held over the past year,
have been aimed at developing community
consensus and engagement to help expedite
town approval and begin construction quickly.
During the committee discussion, trustee
Nelson Schwab asked Evans if there was a
timetable in place for approval of the master
plan and special-use permit.
Evans said he hoped the permit for the
Innovation Center could be approved by
October so that construction could begin by
early 2009. “We have plotted that out on the
calendar, but things have to fall in place in a
rather timely way for that to happen,” he said.
Approval of the master plan, however, is far
more complex, Evans said. During informal
talks between University and town leaders
earlier this month, town officials requested
that the University not submit any more
requests for special-use permits.
Evans said University officials viewed that
request as reasonable, provided that approval
for the Carolina North master plan proceeded
in an orderly and progressive way.
Many council members, however, sug-gested
that the time for talk was only
beginning and stressed the importance of
establishing, then following, a review and
approval process.
Seeking careful, deliberate process
Mayor Kevin Foy stressed the council’s plan
to move with careful, deliberate speed and said
that no decisions would be made that night to
approve the projects or even set a timeframe.
Foy said one of the first tasks was to decide
the kind of approval process needed.
Foy emphasized that the University had
not yet submitted the special-use permit for
town approval and that the presentation of the
Innovation Center served as an opportunity
for council members and residents to offer
constructive criticism that the University
could use to make needed improvements
before the formal approval process began.
During his presentation, Evans reviewed
sequential plans for Carolina North for five,
15 and 50 years while emphasizing that most
of the 250-acre section where development
would be concentrated is a “brownfield site”
that once served as Horace Williams Airport,
the town’s closed landfill and recently closed
municipal yard.
The term “brownfield site” refers to land
once occuppied by a permanent structure that
has become vacant or underused but has the
potential for redevelopment.
In her review of the site plan for the
Innovation Center, Wu stressed that modi-fications
had been made in response to the
town’s Community Design Commission
review and the community meetings.
Mixed reactions
Some forum speakers and council members
raised questions about why the University
would seek a special-use permit for the
Innovation Center before the master plan
was approved.
Others defended the idea and backed the
University’s sense of urgency to build the center.
A resident said she was “shocked” by
the special-use permit request, while
another resident, Scott Radway, suggested
that the Innovation Center could serve as a
valuable test case for future projects.
“The purpose of a master plan is not to
design individual buildings, it is to design a
framework so you can make better decisions
in the future,” Radway said.
On that score, Radway noted that Carolina
North already had seen more scrutiny than two
major private developments, Meadowmont and
Southern Village, approved by the town.
He also noted dramatic advances over the
past decade in energy conservation, carbon
footprinting and environmental sensitivity
that planners for Carolina North have
incorporated into their thinking.
Sense of urgency
University officials have emphasized that
building the Innovation Center has a growing
sense of urgency for a number of reasons,
chief among them the increasing need for
University researchers to be able to move their
discoveries from “the bench to the bedside.”
Joel Marcus of Alexandria Real Estate
Equities Inc., the company that would build
and own the Innovation Center and lease it
to University researchers, spoke briefly about
the role the center would play.
Marcus said the center would be an
accelerator for life sciences and information
technology. He explained the idea of “transla-tional
medicine” and how Alexandria creates
the kind of working environments that develop
new drugs. Marcus said his firm was also
committed to sustainability.
Some of the University’s leading research
experts including Shelton Earp, director
of the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer
Center, also came before the council.
“It turns out that applied science is
really what will affect people,” Earp said. “If
we want to become the best, we need the
Innovation Center.”
Some concerns expressed
In addition to these overarching themes,
various council members posed a range
of concerns.
Council members Jim Ward and Ed Harrison
spoke about the undeveloped acreage and
how it could serve as an outdoor classroom
for stormwater and other research.
Mayor Pro Tem Bill Strom raised a concern
about water availability, suggesting that
the University become part of the town’s
stormwater utility. Strom said he was also
concerned that the amount of housing
currently envisioned would be insufficient.
Two people, a private pilot and a represen-tative
of a private pilots’ group, challenged the
planned closing of Horace Williams Airport,
where the University’s medical operations
and private pilots have been based for more
than 70 years.
Moeser has said he believes the Area Health
Education Centers (AHEC) program can
What happens when bacteria become
resistant to antibiotics? The question in-trigued
Matt Redinbo, professor of chemistry,
biochemistry and bio-physics
— not just from
a scientific standpoint,
but also from a public
health perspective.
Discovering how
to kill antibiotic-resistant
bacteria in
patients could stop
the dangerous spread
of E. coli, staph
infections and hos-pital-
acquired pneumonia. Yet many
big pharmaceutical companies are not
interested in developing products to fight
these resistant strains of bacteria, leaving
it to University researchers like Redinbo
and his team to turn their discoveries
into life-saving products for the public.
“We got interested in this, in part,
because big pharma doesn’t work on this as
much as they used to and, in part, because in
my kid’s lifetime, a simple kidney infection
is going to be a major problem,” Redinbo
said. “It’s going to take someone who is
untethered a priori by a profit motive to
make key discoveries. Then, when the
science is in place, a translation to drug
development is the necessary next step.”
So, with the help of the Office of
Technology Development, Redinbo founded
Exigent Pharmaceuticals Inc. in 2007. The
office helped him apply for a patent and
begin to develop a product. But Redinbo will
have to go off campus to find the space needed
for his spin-off company.
“That’s where the Carolina Innovation
Center will come in perfectly,” Redinbo said.
“We need laboratory space. We need a space
where I can meet with the management team
of that company. I need it to be close to where
I meet with my research team here at Carolina.
I can’t imagine a better situation than having
the Innovation Center just up the road.”
Redinbo’s company could be a prime tenant
in the proposed Innovation Center at Carolina
North. The business accelerator, to be built
in partnership with Alexandria Real Estate
Equities of Pasadena, Calif., is designed to
house start-up companies with direct ties to
UNC research.
Carolina will provide the site, while
Alexandria will build the center and retain
ownership and hold leasing rights for 40 years.
As the first building slated for the mixed-use
academic campus, the Innovation Center will
set the tone for Carolina North.
“I believe our faculty need this facility and
they need it now,” Chancellor James Moeser
has said. “Many faculty working on start-up
companies have had to find space outside
the University.”
Faculty like Matt Redinbo. He is interested
in the Innovation Center for the space he
could use to grow his company, Exigent
Pharmaceuticals, and he is also excited about
the national buzz that would be created by
a new business accelerator associated with
the University.
“It makes Chapel Hill and the RTP area an
even better place to come and do research,”
Redinbo said. “We want Chapel Hill and
North Carolina to be at the very top of that list.”
Carolina North from page 1
See Carolina North, page 13
redinbo
Chemistry researcher sees potential of Innovation Center
6 University Gazette
(CCPS) solicits nominations for three awards:
the Ned Brooks Award for Public Service, the
Robert E. Bryan Public Service Award and the
Office of the Provost Engaged Scholarship
Award. These awards recognize individual
students, faculty, staff and University units
for extraordinary public service and engaged
scholarship. Winners will receive a monetary
award and be honored at the annual Public
Service Awards luncheon in April. Submit
nominations by 5 p.m., Feb. 15. (www.unc.
edu/cps/public-service-awards-index.php.
E-mail ccps@unc.edu; call 843-7568.)
n Nominations are now being accepted for
the following UNC honorary societies: The
Order of the Golden Fleece, The Order of the
Grail-Valkyries, The Order of the Old Well
and The Frank Porter Graham Graduate
and Professional Student Honor Society.
Each of these societies has a long history of
recognizing outstanding members of the
UNC community. (gpsf-wiki.unc.edu/
confluence/display/fpghs/Nominations.)
n Nominations are open through 5 p.m.,
Feb. 27 for the 2008 University Awards for
the Advancement of Women, sponsored by
the Office of the Chancellor, the Office of the
Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost and
the Carolina Women’s Center. This award
recognizes contributions to the advance-ment
of women at the University. Each year,
three individuals — one faculty member, one
and David Gardner on Feb. 25 from 5:30 to
6:30 p.m. in Koury Auditorium of the McColl
Building. The Gardners are co-founders of
the investment service The Motley Fool.
Reserve seats by e-mailing kfbsrsvp@unc.
edu or calling 843-7787.
Nominations for campus awards
n Feb. 7 is the deadline to make nomi-nations
for C. Knox Massey Distinguished
Service Awards. The criterion is “unusual,
meritorious or superior contribution made
by an employee, past or present, to the
University …” Chancellor James Moeser
will present each of the six recipients with an
award of $6,000 during the spring luncheon.
Make nominations by letter — including
the signature of the nominator, or online —
logging in with Onyen and password. No fax
or e-mail nominations will be accepted. (www.
unc.edu/masseyawards. Call Carolyn Atkins,
962-1536; e-mail carolyn_atkins@unc.edu.)
n Nominations for Chancellor’s Awards
for Excellence in Student Activities and Lead-ership
are due Feb. 8.
Complete information, including an
online nomination form, can be found at
www.unc.edu/chancellorsawards/nom.
html. For more information, call Tammy
Lambert (966-3128) or e-mail lambert2@
email.unc.edu.
n The Carolina Center for Public Service
Upcoming lectures on campus
n Jewish music and Jewish merchants in the
post-Civil War South are among topics to be
explored in a spring lecture series presented by
the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies. All are
held at 7:30 p.m. in the Stone Center’s theater.
The next talk, “Jewish Merchants and
Former Slaves: The Economic Relationship
in the Post-Civil War South,” is Feb. 4 and
presented by Eric Goldstein, director of the
Graduate Program in Jewish Studies at
Emory University. (www.unc.edu/ccjs/
events.html; call 962-1509.)
n Also on Feb. 4, a project that helps
developing countries improve their computer
skills and digital communications is the
focus of a lecture presented by Cliff Missen of
Widernet.org and egranary.org. He speaks
about his efforts and successes in bringing the
“Internet in a Box” to places where wires and
wireless don’t reach, particularly in Africa.
The event is held in the Pleasants Family
Room of Wilson Library from 3 to 5 p.m.
n Siva Vaidhyanathan is the featured
presenter at the 2008 Henderson Lecture,
hosted by the School of Information and
Library Science on Feb. 6 at 3 p.m. in the
auditorium of the FPG Student Union. His
lecture is titled “The Human Knowledge
Project (Part 1): Four Conceptual Errors
concerning Massive Digital Library Projects.”
(sils.unc.edu/news/releases/2007/11_hen-dersonlecture.
htm.)
n The Institute for the Arts and Humanities
(IAH) hosts the 15th Mary Stevens Reckford
Memorial Lecture in European Studies on
Feb. 7 at 7:30 p.m. in the Tate-Turner-Kuralt
Auditorium. Joan W. Scott, Harold F. Lindner
Professor of Social Science at the Institute for
Advanced Study, Princeton University, speaks
on “COVER-UP: French Gender Equality
and the Islamic Headscarf.”
n Also on Feb. 7, the Morehead Planetarium
and Science Center presents the next topic
in its Current Science Forums series,
“Victory at Any Cost.” “Victory at Any Cost”
explores how steroids and other performance
enhancers affect the body and offers a
behind-the-scenes look at the science behind
these substances.
The program is free and open to the
public and begins at 7 p.m. in the planetarium’s
Banquet Hall. (Call 962-1236.)
n On Feb. 8 and Feb. 9 the IAH hosts the
sixth workshop of the “Gender, Politics and
Culture in Europe and Beyond series, titled
“What Is the Future of Feminist/Gender
History?” It is held in Hyde Hall.
The workshop is organized by Karen
Hagemann in cooperation with Chad Bryant,
both UNC history professors, and the UNC
Graduate Working Group on Gender
History. (www.unc.edu/gpc.)
n The Program in the Humanities
and Human Values presents “Israel at 60:
History, Politics, Problems and Prospects”
from 9:15 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Feb. 16. The
seminar features Gerhard L. Weinberg,
William Rand Kenan Jr. Professor of History
Emeritus. Tuition is $135. (www.unc.edu/
depts/human; call 962-1544.)
n The Kenan-Flagler Business School’s
Dean’s Speaker Series presents Tom Gardner
News Briefs
visualization technology
staff person and one undergraduate/graduate
student/postdoctoral scholar — may be selected
to receive the award. The faculty and staff
recipients each receive $5,000; the student/
postdoctoral scholar recipient receives $2,500.
All faculty and staff nominees must be
permanent employees.
To submit a nomination, use the online
form: www.unc.edu/oira/public/women_
nomination.html. For information, e-mail
Donna M. Bickford, director of the Carolina
Women’s Center (dbickford@unc.edu) or
call 962-8305.
Wendy’s closes at UNC Hospitals
Wendy’s, which operated on the second floor
of the N.C. Neurosciences Hospital for the past
seven years, closed at the end of the year. Its
contract expired and mutually was not extended.
The space will undergo renovations for a
new venue to be operated by the hospital’s food
services department. The hospital’s other dining
options are still open and many have new hours
or expanded services.
Celebrate life forces at garden’s
summer camp
This summer, the great outdoors will be a
place for investigation and discovery, as North
Carolina Botanical Garden campers celebrate
life forces — earth, air, fire, water and spirit.
Field trips, visiting scientists and naturalists, and
nature-inspired outdoor activities will inspire
campers to take a closer look at the wonders
of the natural world. Camp takes place on the
grounds of the garden.
Registration begins Feb. 11 for garden
members and Feb. 18 for nonmembers.
The session for 6- to 8-year olds is July 7 to
11. The session for 9- to 11-year olds is July
14 to 18. Both sessions meet from 8:30 a.m. to
3 p.m., with the option of extended hours
to 4:30 p.m.
Cost is $170 for members, $190 for nonmem-bers,
and $45 for the extended day option.
Applications for junior counselors will be
accepted from March 3 to May 5.
For information, call Nancy Easterling
(962-0522) or e-mail easterly@email.unc.edu.
PlayMakers to present Pulitzer
winners in rotating repertory
PlayMakers Repertory Company will bring
audiences the rotating repertory experience
through March 2, with two main-stage produc-tions
running on an alternating schedule.
Both plays — “Doubt, A Parable” and
“Topdog/Underdog” — are recent Broadway
hits that won Pulitzer Prizes. All performanc-es
are in the Paul Green Theatre, inside the
Center for Dramatic.
For a complete schedule of performances,
visit www.playmakersrep.org.
Public invited to attend free blood
clot seminar
The public is invited to attend a free seminar
on blood clots March 1, held from 8:45 a.m.
to 2:30 p.m. at the Hilton Raleigh-Durham
Airport at Research Triangle Park, 4810 Old Page
Road in Durham. Registration opens at 8 a.m.
Mike Conway, foreground, and William Schulz view a 360-degree view of the Old Well area in the
Social Computing Room at the new Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) engagement cen-ter
at ITS Manning. RENCI will host an open house on Feb. 7 from 3 to 6 p.m. so the University
community can tour the engagement center and its three research environments that use
cutting-edge visualization and collaboration technologies. In addition to the Social Computing
Room that uses 12 projectors to create a 360-degree display for virtual, immersive and interactive
experiences, people can also see the Showcase Room, with its tilted multi-projector dome
display that allows with data in a 180-degree field of view, and the Tele-immersion Room, with
its large rear-projection screen for 3-D stereoscopic viewing and long-distance collaboration
at more than four times high-density resolution. “The open house is a way to show the UNC
community what we have here and to get them thinking about possible partnerships with
RENCI,” said Ruth Marinshaw, engagement center director. RENCI was founded in 2004 as a
collaboration of Carolina, Duke and N.C. State universities and the state of North Carolina. For
information, refer to www.renci.org.
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january 30, 2008 7
The Carolina sponsor is the UNC Throm-bophilia
program at the Carolina Cardiovascular
Biology Center, as part of Deep Vein Throm-bosis
Awareness Month in March.
Register by Feb. 23 (unchealthcare.org/
bloodclotseminar). For more information, call
Cheryl Jeanneret (843-2568) or refer to www.
nattinfo.org.
Jazz festival begins Feb. 28
The Carolina Jazz Festival kicks off its 30th year
Feb. 28 through March 3 with performances
by the N.C. Jazz Repertory Orchestra, Kenny
Garrett, Nicholas Payton, Ron Westray, Steve
Wilson, Terri Lyne Carrington, and UNC and
the N.C. Regional High School jazz ensembles.
(www.unc.edu/music/jazzfest.)
Tour new basketball museum Feb. 7
The General Alumni Association’s Lifelong
Learning series hosts a tour and talk in the new
Carolina Basketball Museum Feb. 7, from 2:30
to 4 pm. Presenters include Adam Lucas, editor
of Tar Heel Monthly magazine; Steve Kirschner,
associate athletic director/communications;
and Fred King, freelance associate producer
for ESPN.
The museum is located in the new home for
much of Carolina athletics, the Ernie William-son
Athletics Center, located east of the Smith
Center and Koury Natatorium.
Call Steff Kinton (843-5115) to register for
the tour and more information.
‘PepperPot’ opens Feb. 22 at
Brown Gallery
An opening reception is Feb. 22 from 7 to
9 p.m. for “PepperPot,” a multimedia instal-lation
featuring the works of artists Andrea
Chung, Lauren Kelley, Morolake Odeleye and
Cosmo Whyte. Each artist places an emphasis
on making the materials at the center of the
meaning in their work.
The exhibit will be mounted at the Robert
and Sallie Brown Gallery and Museum in the
Stone Center. (ibiblio.org/shschch.)
Salamanders focus of workshop
North Carolina Botanical Garden naturalist
and writer Bob Palmatier discloses secrets about
the spotted salamanders’ instinctive migration
to the vernal pond and features of their life cycle
in a Feb. 23 workshop: “Spotted Salamanders of
the Vernal Pond.”
This family-oriented workshop includes
an indoor slide presentation and live spotted
salamanders in terrariums, as well as exploration
outside. (ncbg.unc.edu/pages/26.)
Learn traditional Arabic dances
The FedEx Global Education Center in
collaboration with the Arab Student Organiza-tion
offers women the free opportunity to learn
traditional Arabic belly dancing on Jan. 31, from
7 to 8 p.m. in Room 1005 of the FedEx Global
Education Center.
Dabka, a group dance that is the national
dance of Lebanon, Jordan, Syria and Palestine,
is taught from 8 to 9 p.m. in the center’s atrium.
Dress comfortably. Light refreshments will be
served. Parking may be available under the cen-ter
(corner of Pittsboro and McCauley Streets).
(global.unc.edu.)
ITS offers events on
Games4Learning discussion
Interested in how to integrate games into the
classroom to stimulate learning? ITS Teaching
and Learning sponsors follow-up events related
to the “Games for Learning: A Conversation
About our Future” conference held last October.
Campus faculty, staff and students are
invited to learn more about possibilities related
to games and learning. Full event descriptions
and registration information are available at
LearnIT.unc.edu/workshops.
n A Games4Learning discussion,
“Legal Issues in Virtual Worlds,” considers how
the law might be applied in virtual worlds, on
Feb. 5, from 12:45 to 1:45 p.m. in Room 203 of
the Campus Y.
n Games4Learning: “Exploring Haptic
Interfaces” demonstrates how a sense of touch
and motion can be incorporated in a computer
interface, on Feb. 14, from 2 to 3 p.m. in Dey
Hall’s Toy Lounge.
Many materials from the October sympo-sium
are available online: learnit.unc.edu/
games4learning.
Garden celebrates Darwin’s
birthday with two events
Two events hosted by the North Carolina
Botanical Garden will mark the birthday of
Charles Darwin, visionary biologist who was
born on Feb. 12, 1809.
n On Feb. 12, from 1 to 4 p.m., there is a
free Charles Darwin (and Abe Lincoln) birthday
tour of the garden. Johnny Randall, assistant
director for conservation, will lead a walk
through the garden grounds and trails.
n Also on Feb. 12, Wiliam Kimler, associate
professor of history at N.C. State University, dis-cusses
“Darwin the Botanist,” including the in-fluence
of botany and some famous botanists on
Darwin’s training and on his work as a naturalist.
The talk takes place from 7 to 9 p.m. Cost is
$10 or $8 for garden members. Call 962-0522
to register.
Register for HAVEN training
The HAVEN program (Help Advocate Vio-lence
Ending Now!) provides ally training for stu-dents
affected by sexual and relationship violence.
HAVEN allies serve as “safe spaces” for students
who need information, referrals and support.
If you are interested in learning more about
HAVEN training, e-mail Melinda Manning,
dean of students, (manning@email.unc.edu).
Allies will be required to attend one four-hour
training program and will receive a notebook of
resource material.
Applications accepted for research
small grant program
The deadline for University Research Council
(URC) Small Grant Program awards is
Feb. 25. The Office of the Vice Chancellor for
Research and Economic Development spon-sors
a small grant program for full-time faculty
and professional librarians at UNC. There are
two types of grants, Research and Publication. A
faculty member may submit only one URC
proposal each semester. The maximum total
award is $5,000 to be used over a two-year
period. (research.unc.edu/red/internal.
php#urc; call Jennifer Pruitt, 962-7757. )
N.C. capital punishment topic of
library panel, exhibit
“Facing Controversy: Struggling with Capital
Punishment in North Carolina” is the topic
of a panel discussion Feb. 5 in Wilson Library
and an exhibit of the same name in Wilson and
Davis libraries through Feb. 28.
The discussion takes place at 5:45 p.m.
in the Pleasants Family Assembly Room,
preceded by a reception at 5 p.m. Featured
speakers will be: Rex Gore, district attorney
for Bladen, Brunswick and Columbus
counties; Sen. Eleanor Kinnaird; Trina Seitz,
a professor of sociology at Appalachian State
University; and Seth Kotch, a Ph.D. candidate
at UNC. (Contact Liza Terll at 962-4207 or
liza_terll@unc.edu.)
The exhibits in Davis and Wilson Library
use original documents, photographs and
other primary source materials from the special
collections in Wilson Library to trace a timeline
through the many perspectives on capital
punishment in our state.
The exhibit and discussion are free and open
to the public. Both are sponsored by the South-ern
Historical Collection in Wilson Library
and contribute to the 2007-08 campuswide
discussion of the death penalty.
$4 million supports medical research programs
and Genomics Research Center, $560,310 for
the Program in Racial Disparities and Cardiovas-cular
Disease and $984,000 for the Collaborative
Initiative in Biomedical Imaging.
“This groundbreaking research will help diag-nose,
treat and prevent diseases that afflict far
too many North Carolinians, such as cancer, car-diovascular
disease and diabetes,” Dole said.
Pisano thanked Dole for her efforts to support
the University Cancer Research Fund. “We
promise to use these appropriations to do
great things for the people of North Carolina
and the nation,” said Pisano, who is also Kenan
Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Engi-neering
and director of the Biomedical Research
Imaging Center.
The North Carolina Cancer and Genomics
Research Center will be the lead research
institution in the Department of Defense’s
National Functional Genomics Center research
consortium, which researches the molecular
basis of cancer and develops tools to improve
early diagnosis and treatment.
The Program in Racial Disparities and Car-diovascular
Disease at UNC and East Carolina
University examines how racial disparities
contribute to differences in health care, espe-cially
with regard to cardiovascular disease.
The Collaborative Initiative in Biomedical
Imaging is a joint effort with UNC-Charlotte
that is revolutionizing the study and treat-ment
of complex diseases such as diabetes,
heart disease and cancer through state-of-the-
art imaging instruments.
Postdoctoral research associate Katie
Hoadley, center, briefs U.S. Sen. Elizabeth
Dole, right, and Etta Pisano, vice dean for
academic affairs in the School of Medicine,
left, on research efforts leading to breast
cancer treatment during Dole’s Jan. 18 visit to
the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer
Center. Hoadley works in the laboratory of
Chuck Perou, associate professor of genetics.
The lab is using DNA microarrays to identify
genes defining each type of breast cancer
and find mouse models that best fit the
characteristic of each subtype.
Dole was on campus to announce that
she helped secure nearly $4 million for three
major health research initiatives at Carolina:
$2.4 million for the North Carolina Cancer
8 University Gazette
Gerald Unks is no moralist. He will say that
he is no historian, either, but merely a teacher
who insists that students who enter his class will
understand history better when they leave it.
Or at least the part of history he covers in
Education 41, “The School in American
Society.” And that is a pretty big deal. Unks has
taught the class to more than 23,000 students
since he joined the faculty of the School of
Education 42 years ago.
It was in that course six or seven years ago, as he
was trying to explain de jure segregation, that the
inspiration for the 35-minute film, “The Town
Before Brown” sprang to mind when several
students asked him if segregation enforced by
law was everywhere in the South.
The students gave him incredulous stares.
“You’re kidding me,” they responded. They simply
could not believe that such a system ever existed.
Yes, he said, de jure segregation was uniform-ly
enforced across the states that comprised the
old Confederacy and into parts of the Midwest,
including southern Indiana and Illinois.
“It was everywhere, including Chapel Hill,”
Unks told them, then watched as their mouths
dropped in disbelief. The thought that an oppres-sive
system could have been practiced in a place
this progressive seemed unfathomable to them.
It was at that moment that Unks, professor of
the social foundation of education and winner of
three University teachings awards, knew he had
to do something.
Through his students, Unks came to realize
that the civil rights movement had been
well documented, but that the time period
immediately before it had not.
“The Town Before Brown” features inter-views
with individuals, both black and white,
who lived in Chapel Hill during the segregation
era. With their stories, Unks hoped to penetrate
his students’ skepticism.
Through the stories, the film reveals how
de jure segregation was an omnipresent fact of
life in Chapel Hill prior to the 1954 landmark
Brown v. Board of Education decision that
struck down the “separate but equal” clause that
had sanctioned segregated schools.
“That was the genesis of the project,” Unks
said. “Quite frankly, I was preparing a classroom
aid was all it was. But over time, it grew.”
It grew in scope and quality, Unks said, because
of the partnership he forged with Cary Gillenwa-ter,
now a first-year doctoral student in culture,
curriculum and change, who ended up serving
as co-producer and videographer of the film.
As Unks said, “We clicked.”
He estimates that 95 percent of the work —
the hours of research in the library, coupled with
the hours spent taping interviews — took place
in the past six months. But in the seven years
that have passed since that education class, the
idea took root in his imagination and in a folder
that grew increasingly thick as he kept adding
clippings for the project.
“It was always there,” Unks said, demanding
his full attention.
Segregation in Chapel Hill
The film is stylistically and thematically
organized with chapter heads that set up the
interviews, which are interspersed with still
photographs that reveal how segregation was
imposed and enforced in Chapel Hill and
throughout the South.
As one chapter heading described it,
“Segregation in Chapel Hill survived because of
tradition, law and fear.”
In 1953, segregation on the basis of
race was the law in 21 states as well as the
District of Columbia, one page read. Segre-gation
existed everywhere across the South,
including places presumed to be “liberal.”
Even in Chapel Hill.
In 1953, the town had
nine restaurants, five
barber shops, eight
beauty parlors, four
movie theaters, two fu-neral
parlors, two cem-eteries,
four schools and
one university. All were
segregated on the basis
of race.
As Reginald Smith,
one of the African-
Americans interviewed
for the film, expressed:
“Chapel Hill had an im-age
of being very liberal
outwardly. But under-neath
it, it was a little dif-ferent
sometimes. That
image was portrayed be-cause
of the University.”
Don Pollitt, professor
of law emeritus, is
interviewed in the film
to explain how de jure
segregation was sanc-tioned
under N.C. Gen-eral
Statute 115-2, which
stated: “The children of
the white race and the
children of the colored
race shall be taught in
separate public schools, but there shall be no
discrimination in favor of or to the prejudice of
either race. All white children shall be taught in
the public schools provided for the white race,
and all colored children shall be taught in the
public schools provided for the colored race …”
On paper, separate but equal was the law. But
in the everyday lives of white and black families,
the film portrays, it was a fiction whites bought
and blacks knew better than to believe.
But for generations, both whites and blacks ac-cepted
it as a way of life that would not be changed.
As Rebecca Clark, an African-American wom-an
interviewed for the film put it, “We was born
into segregation. “We didn’t know no different.”
Churches, even hospitals, were also
segregated, as were the schools.
The U.S. Supreme Court handed down
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
on May 17, 1954, striking down the legality of
“separate but equal.” But that way of life took
longer to change because of the white resistance
that continued for more than a decade afterward.
In Chapel Hill, no consequential effort was
made to desegregate public schools until 1961.
After the Civil Rights Act
In 1964, Congress enacted the Civil Rights
Act, making it a federal crime to segregate public
accommodations on the basis of race. Chapel Hill
High School was not desegregated until 1966.
The University was completely segregated,
too, and the administration made little effort
to change things, largely because it lacked the
political power or the legal jurisdiction to do so.
Wayne Bowers, a white man interviewed for
the film, said the University’s administration in
the 1940s and 1950s was caught between the
state legislature, which fought desegregation
as much as possible, and members of its own
faculty who pushed for integration.
As Bowers said, “They were always worried
about the money from Raleigh and Raleigh was
not very keen on the idea.”
In the film, there is a clip of a 1962 interview
of Frank Porter Graham provided by the
UNC Center for Public Television. Graham,
a former president of the Consolidated University,
explained that he did not have the power to
admit Negroes during his tenure.
“I couldn’t as president lawfully admit
Negroes to the University, but as president I
could say we don’t have to send them up to the
(movie) gallery,” Graham said.
The effect of that law, Pollitt said, was to
create a kind of “serfdom” by race. There were
no black students or faculty members at Carolina,
Pollitt said, and, “Every black who was employed
by the University had a broom or a shovel.”
As bad as that was, it could have been worse,
the film suggested. The level of intellect and
sophistication among the University faculty
mollified the full impact of segregation.
Erle Peacock, a white man who grew up
in segregated Chapel Hill, said faculty were
recruited from all over the country, including
Ivy League schools such as Harvard and Yale,
and many of them wrote and talked in support
of integration.
A white woman, Phyllis Barrett, said there
was no tension between the races in those days
and that relations were often friendly. “It really
was a paternal society in that we looked after
black people,” Barrett said.
But the friendship, and the respect that black
people accorded whites and whites accorded
blacks, were predicated on an unspoken but
strictly enforced code that made everything
between the two races separate as well as unequal.
Dorothy Stone, a black woman who grew up
in the period, recalled that black people were
always called by their first names, for instance,
yet were required to call the white people they
spoke with “Mr.” or “Mrs.” even if the white
person was 30 years younger.
As the film pinpointed, if you were white you
understood your sense of control, and if you were
black you understood what your place was, where
you could go and where you could not, what you
could say and how you should say it. And in the
end, it limited the kind of person you could be.
As Joel Williamson, professor of history
emeritus, described, segregation was “an assault
on the black person’s self-concept and sense of
self worth.”
Unks’ biggest surprise
Unks made the film as a teaching tool, but
through the course of his interviews found that
he was surprised at how contented the blacks
were during that time.
“There is not one of those people who is
angry,” Unks said. “That was a surprise. As
one of the black men I spoke to put it, ‘You
are born, you realize the situation and if you’ve
got any intelligence you deal with the situation
that’s there.’”
Unks said he planned to show the film to
the Northside community in Chapel Hill and
perhaps at his church, the Chapel of the Cross,
where he was also surprised to learn that several
of his interviewees attend.
Unks said anyone wishing to view the film
or use it in class can contact him at 962-9378 or
gunks@email.unc.edu. Anyone who wants a
copy to keep can purchase it for $15.
And there may be another project soon to come.
Encouraged by the success of this first proj-ect,
Unks and Gillenwater are already planning
another. The first integrated class at Chapel Hill
High School graduated in 1967 — the same year
that Unks arrived in Chapel Hill to teach. Unks
wants to talk to those students to find out if their
expectations of going to an integrated school,
both good and bad, matched their experiences.
He remains a teacher, after all, with more
students to surprise.
Unks paints picture of Chapel Hill before Brown v. Board of Education
“The Town Before Brown” was both a scholarly and technical collaboration between, from left, Gerald Unks, who
wrote and produced the film; Andrew Brawn, a technology support specialist with Information Technology Services
who served as the film editor; and Cary Gillenwater, a graduate student who co-produced the film and served as the
videographer. Still photographs were provided by the Library of Congress, the North Carolina Collection in Wilson
Library, Chapel Hill High School and the Northside Senior Center.
january 30, 2008 9
“The success of this campaign exceeded all
our expectations, again and again,” said Paul
Fulton, co-chair of the Carolina First Steering
Committee and member of the Board of Trustees.
The campaign received contributions from
more than 193,000 donors. The single largest
donor was the William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable
Trust and related Kenan entities and family mem-bers,
who combined to commit $69.9 million.
Overall, about $860 million (36 percent) came
from Carolina alumni, $894 million (38 percent)
came from corporations and foundations, and
the balance from friends of the University and
other organizations.
“The amount of participation shows the
depth and breadth of love for Carolina, and the
realization that new levels of excellence were
well within our reach,” said Steering Committee
Co-chair Charlie Shaffer.
Carolina First raised more than $960 million
in gifts and pledges for the endowment. Gifts,
which accounted for more than $500 million of
that total, combined with returns earned by the
UNC Investment Fund, have helped to raise
the endowment’s value to $2.2 billion.
The campaign increased emphasis on
private fundraising, said Steering Committee
Co-chair Mike Overlock. “If we want to compete
with the best private colleges and universities,
we cannot rely on state resources alone to meet
our needs,” he said.
Faculty salaries, research among top legislative priorities
The University’s target for faculty salaries
is the 80th percentile of peer institutions. To
make more progress, Carolina is seeking $16.6
million in the state’s 2008–09 expansion budget.
Chancellor James Moeser, in reviewing
budget priorities with the Board of Trustees
last week, said competitive salaries remained
critical to UNC’s success. The $16.6 million
request recognized the value that administra-tors
have placed in Carolina’s greatest asset —
faculty, he said.
UNC’s budget request was forwarded to
General Administration earlier this month
for consideration in the UNC Board of
Governors proposal for state legislators.
Carolina also sought $1 million in recurring
funds as part of a successful systemwide faculty
retention fund that already had a major impact
on campus. Moeser said the strategic impor-tance
of these funds could not be overstated.
The University asked for $2 million in re-curring
funds and $4 million in non-recurring
funds to expand the Distinguished Professor-ships
program, which leverages private gifts.
The three other legislative priorities fall
under the categories of research, engagement
and capital.
The University sought $10 million for
“commercialization gap funding.” Moeser
said the additional funds would close the gap
between the funded research and the licens-ing
of intellectual property. Applied research
is usually not funded by traditional sources.
The $3 million request for graduate
student recruitment and retention recognizes
the vital role that top graduate students play
in research, Moeser said. The money would
support up to 150 tuition remissions.
Also important to the state is the North
Carolina Research Campus in Kannapolis,
Moeser said. The University asked for $9.5
million in recurring funds and $4.5 million in
non-recurring funds. The money would fund
faculty salaries and benefits, support graduate
students and create a core lab facility.
Requests for capital projects include:
n $69 million to supplement the $30 million
previously appropriated for a Dental Sciences
Teaching and Learning Facility;
n $247 million to go with the $8 million
previously appropriated for the Biomedical
Research Imaging Facility; and
n $30 million toward the first phase of
Carolina North including a facility to
potentially house the School of Law.
Under engagement, Carolina is seeking:
n $2.5 million in recurring funds to
increase the number of K-12 science teachers
and to partner with public schools to support
the professional development of teachers;
n $15 million in recurring funds for the
Area Health Education Centers Program to
address the shortage of health-care workers;
to provide outreach support for indigent care;
to support medical school expansion through
regional UNC medical campuses in Asheville
and Charlotte; and infectious disease funding
to support global health initiatives; and
n $2 million in recurring funds to expand
the master of business administration degree
consulting assistance program, which would
serve up to 75 N.C. companies a year.
Trustees focus on
grad student aid
University trustees are focusing on improving
support for graduate students to compete with
peer campuses. They agree that will take money,
but are less sure about where it should come from.
After a lengthy discussion, board Chair Roger
Perry asked the administration to study the issue
and come back with a report on possible solu-tions
including more competitive stipends for
graduate teaching assistants.
The University Affairs Committee, chaired
by Trustee Rusty Carter, has devoted significant
time to the challenges facing graduate students.
Carter in November suggested that the
campus-based tuition increases graduate and
professional students will pay next year should
be earmarked to offer increased support to those
students with stipends and financial aid. Carter
said the move could have a dramatic impact in
one year. Trustees did not act on his proposal.
Raising faculty salaries to competitive levels has
been a long-standing trustee priority for which
the bulk of tuition revenues are used after 35
percent are reserved for need-based financial aid.
Trustee John Ellison said top students were
attracted to UNC’s graduate and professional
programs because of the financial package and
the quality and reputation of the programs,
something that could be maintained by attract-ing
and keeping a great faculty.
The discussion followed an extensive report
from Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost
Bernadette Gray Little and Holden Thorp,
dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, as well
as Linda Dykstra, dean of the Graduate School.
In 2006–07, for example, $168.6 million was
disbursed to graduate students: $47.4 million
from grant support; $42.7 million in loans and
work study; $19.8 million in teaching assistant
stipends; $27.4 million in research assistant/fel-lowship
stipends; $16.2 million in tuition remis-sions;
$9.6 million in in-state tuition awards; and
$5.3 million in health insurance benefits.
In research assistant stipends, Carolina did
slightly better in 2006–07 than its public peers.
Carolina’s average nine-month stipend was
$17,388, compared to $17,100 for public peers.
Perry cautioned against viewing this slight
advantage as “fool’s gold” because each school
or department competed for students within its
own subset of peer campuses.
Because each unit had its own set of recruitment
circumstances and challenges, Thorp said, arts and
sciences department chairs control spending the
money they receive for graduate student support.
BOT hears plans to address N.C. health needs
University administrators presented plans
to address both the health-care needs for the
state’s growing population and the shortage of
health-care practitioners in North Carolina.
With UNC Hospitals beds already between
98 percent and 100 percent full, the current
capacity cannot keep pace with patients’ needs
here in the fastest growing part of the state,
William L. Roper, dean of the School of
Medicine, vice chancellor for medical affairs
and chief executive officer of the UNC Health
Care System, told the trustees last week.
“We are jammed full all the time,” he said.
“We need to expand.”
A proposed expansion that would include a
new 320-bed patient bed tower and increased
research and academic facilities would
cost $732 million, with $406.5 million
coming from UNC Hospitals, Roper said.
The UNC Health Care System would ask
the state for the remaining $325.5 million.
Around $200 million would go for research
enhancements and $100 for changes to
academic facilities in Berryhill Hall.
In 2006, the North Carolina General
Assembly appropriated $3 million to the UNC
Health Care System to fund a master facility
plan to address the needs of the health-care
system and medical school over the next
decade. Last week, University trustees
approved the design for the plan.
In conjunction with meeting patient-care
needs in Chapel Hill, Roper mentioned a
proposed expansion of medical school enroll-ment
to address the state’s physician shortage,
particularly in rural and inner-city areas.
State and national medical organizations
predict a deficit of doctors by 2020. The four
medical schools in North Carolina graduate
around 440 medical students each year,
virtually the same number as 30 years ago.
By forming partnerships with regional
medical facilities in Asheville and Charlotte,
administrators said, Carolina could expand its
medical school enrollment from 160 to 230
first-year students. The school would phase in
the additional 70 students beginning in 2009.
Under the proposal, all medical students
would spend their first two years at Carolina
and their last two years at a regional campus —
20 students in Asheville and 50 in Charlotte.
All three campuses would share a common
curriculum and educational approach and
consistent evaluation methods.
To put the expansion in perspective,
East Carolina University’s medical school
graduates 70 students a year, Etta Pisano,
vice dean for academic affairs at Carolina’s
medical school, told the trustees’ University
Affairs Committee.
The expansion builds on the strong existing
relationship with AHEC, the Area Health Edu-cation
Centers network across the state, she said.
Creating the regional educational programs
also will require funding: $40 million in recur-ring
funds for additional faculty and staff and
$239 million in non-recurring funds for facilities
construction and renovation on the campuses.
Recurring funds needed will range from
$3.6 million in fiscal year 2009 to $40.2 million
in fiscal year 2015 when all three sites are at
full enrollment.
Still, this price tag is less than the cost of
building and operating a new medical school,
Pisano said.
The bottom line is, the state needs more
doctors, she said. “And if we don’t address this
shortage, I’m not sure anyone will do it.”
n
Carolina First from page 1
will assess how children living in rural poor
communities adjust to school.
Researchers will examine if the temperament
of infants and toddlers predicts early school
success or failure. Temperament was assessed
in the first three years of each child’s life
with home observations and physiological
measures of saliva cortisol by measuring
stress hormones in the children’s saliva
and heart rate.
Researchers also will examine for the first
time in rural, low-income communities how
academic achievement is affected by language
and cognitive skills and experiences before
formal schooling, the nature and quality
of the classroom instruction in the early
grades, parenting experiences and outside
school activities.
“This second phase of the Family Life
Project will be important in understanding
how the early experiences of young children
in rural communities predict children’s
academic and behavioral success in school,”
Vernon-Feagans said.
The Family Life Project began in 2002
with a $16.5 million grant from the National
Institute of Child Health and Human
Development at the National Institutes of
Health. This second grant is for five years.
For more information about the Family Life
Project, refer to www.fpg.unc.edu/~flp.
Grant from page 1
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Faculty/Staff News & Notes
Joyner to manage
HR functions for
faculty employment
Melanie Dawn Joyner has been appointed
special assistant to the provost and director of
academic personnel. She replaces Sylvia White
who retires Jan. 31 after 33 years of service.
Joyner will provide management and
supervision of the human resources functions
that govern the employment of faculty. She
will work with University administrators and
managers on faculty recruitment, appoint-ment,
training, promotion and tenure, policy
interpretation and development, academic
personnel issues, and will work closely with
Elmira Mangum, the senior associate provost.
Certified as a Professional in Human
Resources, Joyner has worked almost exclusively
in the human resources field — from positions
in local and state government to positions in
corporate and private industry. She was most
recently employed as director of human resources
at Carol Woods Retirement Community.
Joyner attended Michigan State University
for post-graduate work and Virginia Union
University for undergraduate work in chemistry.
Moeser honored for
service to humanity
Chancellor James Moeser received
the Martin Luther King Jr. Citizenship
Award from the Martin Luther King
University/Community Planning Corp.
at the group’s Jan. 20 memorial banquet.
The award goes to citizens in “recog-nition
of enduring service to humanity
by word and by deed.” Moeser spoke on
behalf of the University at the event,
which celebrates the legacy of King in
promoting respect and human dignity.
Archie Ervin, associate provost for
diversity and multicultural affairs, made
the award presentation. He cited Moeser’s
contributions to North Carolina and
Orange County in promoting diversity
and increasing access for students to
higher education.
Ervin said it was unusual for this award to
be presented to someone after a relatively
short period of service to Chapel Hill
and Carrboro. He said Moeser was
selected because of the significant impact
of his leadership for both the state and
local communities.
Among the University’s achievements
during Moeser’s tenure has been the Caro-lina
Covenant, which provides a debt-free
education to qualified low-income students.
The chancellor also has championed
the University’s longtime commitment
to diversity and an open intellectual com-munity.
He appointed a campus task
force that produced the University’s first
diversity plan, which is being implemented.
Former law school dean recognized for UNC service
Her commitment to making Carolina a bet-ter
and fairer place has defined Judith Wegner’s
more than 25 years of service to the University.
For her work as a
faculty leader and for-mer
dean of the School
of Law, Wegner was
honored Jan.18 with
the General Alumni
Association’s Faculty
Service Award. The
award, established in
1990, honors faculty
members who have
performed outstanding
service to the University or the association.
Wegner, who came to Carolina in 1981,
was dean of the law school from 1989 to 1999,
after she worked as a teacher, legal scholar
and associate dean of the school. From 2003
to 2006, she served as faculty chair and was
the first former dean in more than 40 years to
hold that post.
Wegner has taught and written about land
use, property law, state and local government
law and the rights of disabled persons. She
helped create the University’s Public Service
Roundtable, a volunteer group of faculty,
staff and students that worked to establish the
UNC Center for Public Service. She chaired
the Committee on the Status of Women and
co-chaired then-Chancellor Paul Hardin’s
Committee on Community and Diversity.
As law school dean, Wegner diversified
the school’s faculty and student body. As
faculty chair, she addressed faculty reten-tion
and graduate student issues and ensured
that logo licensing revenues would support
merit-based academic scholarships.
“She believes deeply in the public mission
of the University,” said Anne Whisnant,
director of research, communications
and programs for the Office of Faculty
Governance. “She has a strong sense of justice
and a sense that things can be better than they
are. She’s an incredible dynamo about almost
anything she takes on.”
Wegner is a delegate to the faculty assembly
of the UNC system. She was president
of the Association of American Law Schools
and also helped start the African Law Initiative,
an exchange program for students in 16
American law schools and eight law schools
in Africa.
Her previous UNC honors include the
Mary Turner Lane Award and the Cornelia
Phillips Spencer Bell Award, which recognize
contributions to women on campus, and
induction into the Order of the Golden Fleece,
UNC’s highest honorary society. She also
received the Order of the Long Leaf Pine, the
highest honor the governor can bestow on a
North Carolina citizen.
Ten faculty begin spring IAH fellowships
Ten faculty members are beginning spring
fellowships at the Institute for the Arts and
Humanities (IAH). For the first time, UNC
faculty members will be joined by a professor
from Duke University as part of a new faculty
exchange between the IAH and Duke’s Franklin
Humanities Institute.
“IAH Fellowships provide time for faculty
to focus on specific research projects while
exchanging their ideas with a diverse group of
colleagues,” said John McGowan, IAH director
and The Ruel W. Tyson Jr. Distinguished
Professor of Humanities. “The conversations
at the fellowship table create an intellectual
community from which cutting-edge research
and good teaching emerges.”
The Faculty Fellows, including two recipients
of Chapman Family Faculty Fellowships, and
the research topics they will pursue are:
n Karen Booth, associate professor, Cur-riculum
in Women’s Studies, “Reading AZT:
The Cultural Politics of Global Medicine”
(Chapman Fellow);
n Marianne Gingher, associate professor,
Department of English and Comparative
Literature, “A Woman at Play: The Coming
of Age of a Writer” (a memoir) and “Speedos:
An Anthology of Short Short Stories by
60 N.C. Writers” (editing and collecting)
(Chapman Fellow);
n Banu Gokariksel, assistant professor,
Department of Geography and Curriculum in
International and Area Studies, “The Urban
Spaces of Modern Muslim Women, Veiling as
Fashion and Political Activism”;
n Perry Hall, associate professor, Department
of African and Afro-American Studies, “Finding
Fault: Lines and Sites of African American
Cultural Production”;
n Jennifer Ann Ho, assistant professor,
Department of English and Comparative
Literature, “Passing Through Asian America:
Mixed-Race Asian Americans in Late 20th-
Century Culture”;
n Dale Hutchinson, professor, Department
of Anthropology, “Global Expansion, Social
and Economic Transformation, and Health in
the Colonial New World”;
n Laurie Maffly-Kipp, associate professor,
Department of Religious Studies, “Hyper-Patri-otism
and Heresy: A History of Mormonism”;
n Michael McFee, professor, Department of
English and Comparative Literature, Creative
Writing Program, “New Poems and Essays”;
n Eric M. Myers, professor of Judaic
Studies and director of the Center for Jewish
Studies, Duke University, “Israel: The Archaeo-logical
Heritage”;
n Jocelyn Neal, assistant professor, Depart-ment
of Music, “Individuality, Race, Gender, and
Fan Identity in the Country Dance Hall”; and
n Krista Perreira, assistant professor,
Department of Public Policy, “Latino Immigra-tion
and the American South.”
For more information, refer to www.
iah.unc.edu.
wegner
Decorat ions & Distinctions
Judith Benowitz
Ramon Sotelo
Jody Bare
Xiaoping Wu
Benowitz, Sotelo, Bare and Wu, all
staff and associates of the Friday Center,
were honored recently with 2007 Friday
Center Awards.
Benowitz received the Best All-Around
Award for her exemplary commitment to
the center’s mission and goals and outstand-ing
service to the center and its clients.
Sotelo received the Extra Mile Award in
recognition of his initiative, creative prob-lem-
solving and performance above and
beyond the call of duty.
Bare received the Sunshine Award,
recognizing her positive attitude,
promotion of team-building activities, and
exceptional customer service.
Wu, who works with Information
Technology Services, received the Center
Service Award, recognizing outstanding
effort by an individual or organization that
provides service to the center.
Barbara Wildemuth
Professor in the School of Information and
Library Science, Wildemuth has been elected
to a three-year term as director-at-large for
the American Society of Information Science
and Technology (ASIS&T).
The ASIS&T
board governs the
organization of ap-proximately
4,000
information science
and library profes-sionals
in more than
50 countries world-wide.
The organiza-tion’s
mission is to
“advance the infor-mation
sciences and
See Decorations, page 15
wildemuth
january 30, 2008 11
Human Resources
Use online benefits resources to promote overall health
If you are covered under the State Health
Plan, remember that the Comprehensive Major
Medical Plan (CMMP) will be eliminated July 1.
If you are still enrolled in this plan, you may
want to start to review other available options.
Refer to the State Health Plan’s Web site at
www.shpnc.org. There will be an annual
enrollment this spring during which you
can switch to one of the Preferred Provider
Organization (PPO) plans.
Prescription drug tips
Register online with Medco, the pharmacy
provider used by Blue Cross Blue Shield, at www.
medco.com. If you use mail-order prescriptions,
you can check on prescription status, reorder
prescriptions and locate a pharmacy. In addi-tion,
you can price medications and use a new
tool called “My RX Choices” that lets you find
if there are lower-cost options for prescriptions
you use that you can discuss with your doctor.
Blue Cross Blue Shield online
resources
Register online with Blue Cross Blue Shield,
www.bcbsnc.com, to find doctors and hospi-tals,
check claims, request ID cards and review
benefits. You can also use the health resource
section for estimates on health services and
find discounts for services not provided under
the State Health Plan (such as alternative
medicines or dietary supplements). To register,
you will need your subscriber ID card, your
date of birth and your zip code.
Also, check out the Blue Points program.
Getting fit and staying healthy involves more
than exercise — it is about learning what
“healthy” means and making healthier life-style
choices. The physical activity incentive
program has been updated to include ways
for members to earn prizes for participating
in wellness activities, such as signing up for
an online wellness program or understanding
healthy cholesterol and blood pressure levels.
The Blue Points program also awards
points for signing up for specific wellness
programs. The latest health information and
interactive tools, including meal planners, a
BMI (body mass index) calculator, exercise
demos and fitness diaries, are also available.
Supplemental retirement plan
limits for 2008
The maximum annual limits that you can
contribute to supplemental retirement plans
for 2008 are:
You can contribute to all three supplemen-tal
plans; however, contributions to the 401(k)
and 403(b) plans are totaled together to meet
the annual limits, while the 457(b) plan has its
own annual limit.
For example, in 2008 you can contribute
$15,500 to a 401(k) and/or 403(b), plus an
additional $15,500 to the 457(b). If you
are age 50 or older, you can contribute an
additional $5,000.
Additionally, employees with 15 or more
years of University service can contribute up
to an additional $3,000 to the 403(b) if they
have not contributed at the maximum levels
in prior years. Provisions under the 457(b)
provide opportunities to defer up to twice
the contribution limit in the last three years
before normal retirement.
You should contact your plan vendor to
review your limit, and if necessary, complete a
new Salary Reduction Agreement.
PLAN ANNUAL LIMIT
401(k) or Roth 401(k) $15,500
403(b) $15,500
457(b) $15,500
Catch Up
(Age 50 & Over)
$5,000
Adverse weather policy always in effect
The adverse weather policy is always in effect.
Any time employees (both SPA and EPA non-faculty)
cannot attend work due to a significant
weather-related event, the policy applies.
This includes having to stay home
to care for a child out of school due to
adverse weather.
Human Resources has detailed adverse
weather information available at hr.unc.edu/
hottopics/adverseweather. This includes
resources to determine the University’s cur-rent
adverse weather condition, a link to the
Department of Public Safety’s Web page and
access to the adverse weather leave policies.
The University uses three adverse weather
operating conditions:
n Condition Level I: “Normal” weather
conditions, so the University is open on a
normal schedule. Staff can still navigate the
campus and local areas safely.
n Condition Level II: “Severe” weather,
including heavy snow or ice and/or heavy
accumulations, so public transportation is
limited. Classes are canceled, but University
offices are open.
n Condition Level III: “Extreme” weather,
such as unusually large accumulations of
snow, ice or sleet. Law enforcement advises
no one to travel except in an emergency. The
University has been closed.
Non-emergency employees are responsible for
their regular duties during Conditions I and II.
They must account for any time missed
and decide about coming to work based on
personal safety. Only emergency employees
must report to work during Condition
III events.
Announcements about the closing of state
government offices due to adverse weather do
not apply to the University.
For details about the University’s current
condition, employees can call the University’s
Adverse Weather and Emergency Phone Line
at 843-1234 or visit the UNC main home
page, www.unc.edu, for updates.
Carolina Kids Camp, a summer
day camp for school-age children ages
6 through 12, will begin accepting
applications Feb. 11 on a first-come,
first-served basis for the 2008 camp.
The camp is open to children of
University permanent employees
and students and children of UNC
Health Care and General Alumni
Association employees.
The 2008 camp, open to children who
will be in grades 1–7 this fall, will run
from June 16 through Aug. 8 (with no
camp on July 4).
All sessions will last one week. Carolina
Kids Camp is located near Fetzer Gym
and the Frank Porter Graham Student
Union and operates Monday–Friday,
with drop-off beginning at 7:30 a.m. and
pick-up by 5:30 p.m.
Campers are able to enjoy the gyms,
playing fields, swimming pool and
other campus resources including group
visits to campus facilities and visits from
special presenters.
Carolina Kids Camp will be unable
to offer the Junior Counselor program
this summer.
Limited camp scholarships are available.
Scholarship applications will be accepted
Feb. 11–29.
To download an application, refer to
hr.unc.edu/employees/spa-employ-ees/
workfamily/childcare/kidscamp.
For more information on Carolina Kids
Camp, contact Work/Life Programs at
962-6008 or worklife@unc.edu.
Carolina Kids
Camp accepting
applications Feb. 11
sta r hels RECIPIENTS
Biology
Shirley Hart
Clinical Affairs
Patti Harris
Dawn Teer
Debbie Thompson
Dental Ecology
Mary Hinrichs
Daniella Onofrio
Dental Faculty Practice
Teresa Brown
Eric Gilchrist
Dental Research Center
Marisa Sears
Darrin Simmons
Diagnostic Sciences
Donna Barnes
LeeAnn Smith
Endodontics
Wanda Hess
Sarah Waltz
Environmental Science
and Engineering
Leonard Collins
Oksana Kosyk
Environment, Health and Safety
Eric Zack
Housekeeping Services
Lloyd Bell
Savonne Green
Teretha Rone
Malee Silver
Naval Science
Janis Carter
Ophthalmology
Yvonne Dodson
Matthew O’Neal
Office of the Provost, Health Affairs
Margaret Anderson
Operative Dentistry
Betty Cates
Janet Crutchfield
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
Win Aye
Thet Aung
Orthodontics
Tamara Davis
Wendy Lamm
Pediatric Dentistry
Lillibet Elling
Azedah Rohanian Perry
Philosophy
Lance Westerlund
Physics and Astronomy
Beverly Loftin
Steve Medlin
Radiology
Michele Clark
University Library
Susan Wrenn
WUNC Radio
Susan Anderson
Nancy Brookshire
Laura Leslie
12 University Gazette
Fire-safe cigarettes to become the norm
In the summer, Ernest Grant sees skin
burned by outdoor grills, fireworks, brush
fires and motor vehicle collisions. In the
winter, the burns are from wood stoves and
kerosene heaters.
But, he said, there are certain types of
serious burns that he treats all year long in the
Jaycee Burn Center at UNC Hospitals, and
those are the ones caused by
fires started from cigarettes.
Grant, who is a nurse in
the Jaycee Burn Center, said
cigarette fires happen to the
young and old. An elderly
person smoking while using
an oxygen machine can eas-ily
become relaxed enough
to drop a burning cigarette.
Other victims doze off
before stubbing out their
cigarettes, igniting their
clothing or furniture.
Older smokers smoke at
only half the rate of younger
adults, and yet they are
more than three times more likely to die in
cigarette-related fires. And it is not just the
smokers who are injured or killed in fires
caused by cigarettes, Grant said — smokers’
children are most often the other victims.
But thanks to Grant, his colleagues and
the results of research from Carolina’s
Injury Prevention Research Center,
smokers in North Carolina will soon be
buying only fire-safe cigarettes.
Unlike regular cigarettes, fire-safe
cigarettes have two or three bands of less-porous
paper wrapped underneath the
normal paper rolled around the tobacco. After
you light a regular cigarette, it will slowly
burn on its own all the way to the filter.
Unless the cigarette is sitting in an ashtray or
held safely away from its surroundings, the
burning tobacco can easily ignite flammable
clothing or furniture.
But the bands in fire-safe cigarettes act as
speed bumps, allowing the cigarette to burn
only until it reaches a band; then it extinguishes
itself. The paper bands used in fire-safe
cigarettes do not affect the taste or the cost,
Grant said.
So Grant teamed up with his colleagues at
UNC Hospitals and other Carolina researchers
to start talks with state legislators, presenting
the evidence that cigarettes account for most
of the 100 or so fire-related deaths per year in
North Carolina. And according to the Injury
Prevention Research Center, using fire-safe
cigarettes could prevent 50 to 60 fire-related
deaths a year in North Carolina alone.
In 2005, there were more than 7,500
house fires in North Carolina. And of the
many cigarette-burn patients Grant sees,
most have been hurt in house fires. Even
if people are lucky enough to escape such a
blaze unburned, Grant said, “you might be
out of a house for while.”
Gr ant ’ s a rgument s
worked. According to new
legislation in North Carolina,
come 2010, every packet
of cigarettes behind every
convenience store counter
in the state should bear a
fire-safe stamp.
This legislation has
been a long time coming,
Grant said. Tobacco com-panies
have known for
decades how to make fire-safe
cigarettes, but only
in the past few years have
individual states begun to
pass legislation requiring the companies to
manufacture them.
In 2007, the North Carolina-based RJ
Reynolds Tobacco Company — the second-largest
tobacco company in the country —
announced that it would begin producing
only fire-safe cigarettes by the end of 2009.
For the biggest tobacco-producing state in the
country, Grant said, that is a pretty big deal.
Provided by the Division of
Research and Economic Development.
Editor: Neil Caudle
Writer: Margarite Nathe
If a fire-safe cigarette is left unattended, the burning tobacco will reach
one of these banded “speed bumps” and self-extingish.
illus t r at ion: john roman, courtesy of coalition for fire-safe cigarettes
FYI RESEARCH
Chinese, Carolina
doctors to examine
health-care challenges
Cardiac care, smoking, HIV AIDS and health-care
policies in the United States and China
will be discussed during the “Health Crisis and
Disparities: Working Together on Solutions”
forum in the FedEx Global Education Center
(Jan. 30) and Carolina Club (Jan. 31, Feb. 1).
Because China is home to about one-fifth of
the world’s population, partnering with Chinese
researchers gives Carolina
doctors access to more
cases of illness from which
to learn, said Myron
Cohen, J. Herbert Bate
Distinguished Professor of
Medicine, Microbiology
and Public Health and
director of the UNC
Institute for Global
Health and Infectious Dis-eases,
the forum sponsor.
“Diseases don’t respect borders,” said Cohen,
also the associate vice chancellor for global
health in the School of Medicine. “We are
working together to come up with solutions that
will help both countries.”
Forum co-sponsors are the UNC Center for
AIDS Research, the Research Triangle pharma-ceutical
firm Quintiles Transnational, and the
organizations Family Health International and
Research Triangle Regional Partnership.
Peking University Vice President Hai Wen
and Chancellor James Moeser will chair the
forum, a follow-up to the first such event in
December 2006 at Peking University in Beijing.
William L. Roper, dean of the School of
Medicine, vice chancellor for medical af-fairs
and chief executive officer of the UNC
Health Care System, and Gordon Liu,
chair of the department of health economics
and management at
Peking University, will
speak about health policy
reform in the United
States and China. Lui, a
key figure in health policy
reform efforts in China,
is principal investigator
on the largest study of
urban health insurance
ever conducted in China.
As China’s economy
grows, instances of pollution, obesity, smok-ing
and heart disease have increased. The fo-rum
will feature a comparison of cardiovas-cular
care in the United States and China by
research partners Zhao Dong, deputy director
of the Beijing Institute of Heart, Lung and Blood
Vessel Diseases at Beijing Anzhen Hospital,
and Sid Smith, director of the UNC Center for
Cardiovascular Science and Medicine and former
president of the American Heart Association.
A panel discussion moderated by Adam Gold-stein,
professor of family medicine and director
of the UNC Tobacco Prevention and Evalua-tion
Program, will probe tobacco control in the
United States and China.
In China today, an estimated 300 million
people smoke. This is just under the total U.S.
population, where an estimated 25.9 million
men (23.9 percent) and 20.7 million women
(18.1 percent) smoke.
For the full forum schedule, refer to www.
pkuuncglobalhealthforum.org.
cohen
roper
New philanthropy program
inspires Carolina students
Carolina students have always been active
in supporting a variety of community
organizations. This semester, they will have a
hands-on opportunity to learn what is involved
in managing the philanthropic process.
Carolina was one of five universities selected
to participate in a new student-directed chari-table
giving program that aims to inspire young
people to become involved with philanthropy.
Students4Giving, launched by the Fidelity
Charitable Gift Fund and Campus Compact,
will provide $15,000 to each school, to be
overseen by students participating in nonprofit
and philanthropy courses during the spring
semester. The students will recommend which
causes and qualified public charities to support
and how to invest the money for future
charitable grants.
In addition to Carolina, other participants
are Boston University, California State
University in Fresno, Portland (Ore.) Com-munity
College and Whitworth University in
Spokane, Wash. Thirty-five universities and
colleges nationwide submitted proposals.
Throughout the semester, the Gift Fund
and Campus Compact will provide access to
charitable planning consultants and guidance
and education on charitable giving topics,
civic volunteerism and giving through a
donor-advised fund.
“We are thrilled to be selected to participate
in the Students4Giving program,” said Lynn
Blanchard, director of the Carolina Center for
Public Service. “Our students are committed to
supporting community organizations through
the philanthropic process; strengthening their
learning through an actual giving program that
they manage and is connected to their course
work and provides a real-world experience that
will benefit them throughout their lives.”
A donor-advised fund program allows
individuals, private foundations and businesses
to make irrevocable contributions to the
public charity sponsoring the program. The
money is allocated to a specific account,
known as the donor-advised fund, and account
holders or advisers may recommend grants to
qualified recipients.
Campus Compact is a coalition of more
than 1,100 college and university presidents
who work to fulfill the civic purposes of higher
education. The Fidelity® Charitable Gift
FundSM has the largest donor-advised fund
program in the country and promotes
philanthropy by providing programs that
encourage charitable giving.
One of Szary’s chief responsibilities has
been to merge these individual collections
into an integrated special collections
library that better serves the needs of scholars
and students.
It is his technical expertise that Szary will
bring to the Mellon grant project, along
with his role in overseeing the library’s
newly established Carolina Digital Library
and Archives. The award-winning Docu-menting
the American South digital library
is now one of the flagship programs of the
new department.
“A good part of our role will be to provide
the underlying infrastructure, the digital pub-lishing
platform, if you will, that we also need
for our own purposes at the library,” Szary said.
Szary said there is much the University
Library and the Southern Oral History Pro-gram
can learn from UNC Press in terms of
editing and selecting materials and tailoring
products to fit a market need.
“The technical developments are going to
be challenging but the grant will also help the
library and the oral history program build a
new model of working together with the press
in new and exciting ways,” Szary said. “We’ve
always had a good relationship with the press,
Mellon from page 4
See Mellon, page 14
january 30, 2008 13
could improve research productivity,” he said.
The council also discussed amending the
Faculty Code to remove a provision passed in
2003 allowing faculty chairs to be elected to two
consecutive terms.
In response to a request from Faculty Chair
Joe Templeton, the Committee on University
Government consulted with Templeton and
five previous faculty chairs as well as other
faculty members and administrators.
The committee recommended reinstating the
former provision, which would limit the chair to a
three-year term without eligibility for immediate
reelection. A former chair could be elected again
at a later time.
Five years ago, the committee favored the
possibility of back-to-back terms because that
was consistent with other committees and could
ensure continuity, said Michael Lienesch, pro-fessor
of political science and committee chair.
“Besides, we assumed that no one would ever
choose to serve two consecutive terms,” he said.
The committee felt that the proposed change
would encourage broader faculty participa-tion
and allow for greater diversity of faculty
experience and views. It would also prevent a
reelection advantage for incumbents and be an
optimal way for the faculty chair to be the chief
advocate for faculty priorities, Lienesch said.
Instituting the change would require calling
a meeting of the general faculty and reading the
amendment twice before a vote could be taken,
said Joe Ferrell, secretary of the faculty.
remain strong without the airport. Medical Air
Operations, the transportation arm of AHEC,
would remain at Horace Williams until the Inno-vation
Center was ready for occupancy, Moeser
has said. After that, MedAir would move to a
new hangar built for it at Raleigh-Durham
Airport. The University has also pledged to
work with local, state and federal agencies to help
create a general aviation authority in southern
Orange County that could serve AHEC.
One area of agreement between trustees and
council members emerged during the course of
the day: Both are interested in seeing the Inno-vation
Center make a bold statement. Trustees
want a design for what has been described as
Carolina North’s “front door” that leans more
toward the dramatic than the nondescript.
Perry, for instance, said he loved the soaring
glass entrance to the building and the court-yard
that blended interior and exterior space.
On the other hand, he thought the flanking
office wings lacked the kind of pizzazz that a
signature building called for.
The full board also devoted nearly an
hour to reviewing and critiquing the cur-rent
design. The discussion ended with a call
for University planners to put in place uni-fying
guidelines for all of Carolina North.
To view the meeting, refer to chapelhill.
granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_
id=3&clip_id=250.
compliance issues are similar from one institu-tion
to another, Tenney said. “The challenge
is learning the people who are responsible for
the well-being of the institution and develop-ing
an understanding of what is going on.”
Ongoing challenges
Resources are always a challenge, Tenney
said, particularly those needed to monitor
the research process from start to finish.
Developing appropriate internal controls and
a feedback mechanism to ensure that trials
are conducted exactly as they were proposed
to the IRB or IACUC is on her wish list for
the future.
Another challenge is protecting the security
of information in increasingly complex
organizations, where a seemingly simple breach
could hamper the entire research process.
“When people provide disclosures,
it is our responsibility to protect that
information as if it were any other type
of critical personnel information,”
Tenney said. “Sherrie and I are mindful that
whenever we talk to someone, there are all
kinds of strictures with regard to privacy.”
Because compliance is a shared
responsibility, she said, the University has
developed many resources to help researchers
and administrators.
The Office of Clinical Trials offers a com-prehensive
training series (research.unc.edu/
oct) for clinical research coordinators, the
administrators who run clinical trials. “It truly
is an exceptional training series,” Settle said.
Then, through the outsourced University
Compliance Line, people can express
anonymous, confidential concerns about
financial, privacy or environment, health and
safety aspects of campus research by calling
866-294-8688 or filing an online report at
www.ethicspoint.com.
Questions about research compliance can
be directed to the Research Compliance
Office, 843-9953.
Compliance from page 3
Since the Energy-Efficient Lighting
Policy went into effect last September, the
University has been working to replace all
incandescent light bulbs with the more
energy-efficient compact fluorescent lamps.
The compact fluorescent lamps (CFL) use
one-quarter as much electricity to create
the same amount of light, produce
less heat and last up to 10 times
longer than the incandescent
bulbs. They are designed to fit
fixtures that use conventional
screw-in bulbs, such as desk or
floor lamps.
To help departments across
campus make the switch,
the Sustainability Office has
purchased 4,000 CFLs and will
supply them at no charge as
long as supplies last.
“Fundamentally, using the
CFLs is the right thing to do,
so we are making this one-time
offer to help get people started,”
said Warren Jochem, energy
conservation manager. “Our goal
is to replace all incandescent bulbs
on campus by Jan. 31, but we will be
glad to provide the CFLs past that date
as long as we have them.”
In the past, he said, the color of the CFL
light was too bright to suit many people. But
the Sustainability Office has tested a variety
of CFLs to find an acceptable replacement in
terms of color and brightness for the 60-watt
incandescent bulbs.
To take advantage of the free CFLs,
departmental facility managers or their
designees should get a count of the total
number of bulbs needed and stop by
the Facilities Services Store to pick
them up. Only desk or floor
lamps that use a conventional
screw-in bulb should be in-cluded
in the count. Facilities
Services will replace bulbs
for ceiling and wall fixtures.
“We ask that people
dispose of the incandescent
bulbs so they are not reused,”
Jochem said. “The energy
savings associated with the
CFL pays for the replacement
in a matter of months.”
As the CFLs burn out,
information about sources for
replacement lamps will be posted
on the Sustainability Office Web
site, sustainability.unc.edu.
“We are working with the
purchasing office to make CFLs avail-able
through Staples online,” Jochem said.
The Facilities Services Store is located
inside the General Storeroom building at 111
Airport Drive. For information about using
CFLs, call 962-7283.
Free compact fluorescent
lamps available on campus
Faculty Council from page 3
Carolina North from page 5
Her 15 minutes of fame
stretched to two nights. That
is how long it took for UNC’s
Rebecca Knickmeyer —
a postdoctoral fellow in the
psychiatry department — to
go from being an impres-sive
$20,001 winner one
night on the popular game
show “Jeopardy!” to losing
her title the next when she
stumbled over a Daily Double
question and never recov-ered.
Knickmeyer’s Jan. 15
and 16 appearances were
taped in Los Angeles at the
end of October.
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UNC system research to help shape state’s economic future
Carolina researchers will collaborate with
their counterparts at 12 other UNC system
campuses and several community colleges and
private universities to undertake research with
strong economic development potential.
Through grant awards totaling more than
$3.8 million, these research efforts could also
provide real solutions to problems facing the
state and lead to the creation of new jobs.
The awards include $3 million appropriated
by the North Carolina General Assembly for
research on North Carolina’s economic future
for proposals in biotechnology, nanotechnol-ogy,
optics, health care, natural products,
environmental science and marine science.
The funded projects, which were selected
from 35 proposals, leverage more than
$4.4 million in private and federal funding.
Carolina is one of nine “lead” campuses
receiving grant awards.
The awards coincide with the completion
of a months-long series of forums asking
people across North Carolina to share their
needs and frustrations and to help identify ways
in which the UNC system can address prob-lems
during the next 20 years. Last month,
the UNC Tomorrow Commission released
draft recommendations that included strong
support for more direct UNC system involve-ment
in shaping the state’s economic future.
Carolina researchers will lead efforts to
enhance regional water resource management
(contact: Gregory Characklis, associate profes-sor
of environmental sciences and engineer-ing),
establish a program aimed at increasing
diversity among people involved in clinical
translations research (contact: Margaret
Dardess, associate vice chancellor for strategic
alliances) and develop multi-functional
biomedical devices for pediatric patients
(contact: Keith Kocis, professor of pediatrics).
In addition, Carolina researchers are
involved in efforts to develop a prototype
biochemical sensor, miniaturized to chip
scale; explore the juncture of the textiles and
nanotechnology fields; and develop an
environmental monitoring platform in the
southern Pamlico Sound.
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Dec. 21 at 55
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of development and communications with
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For the past five years, University researchers
have examined how living in smaller cities,
towns and rural areas influences the
development of young children.
Now, with a $12.8 million grant from the
National Institutes of Health, researchers at
the FPG Child Development Institute and
the School of Education will look at how well
these children make the transition to school.
The grant makes possible the continuation
of the largest study to date of how child
development is affected by rural life. Launched
five years ago, the Family Life Project has been
following families living in two geographical
areas with a high rate of poverty among
rural children — the African-American South
and Appalachia.
Researchers have followed 1,292 children
from birth in three counties in eastern
North Carolina and three counties in central
Pennsylvania to examine how differences in
children’s development are linked to variations
in temperament, family experience, community
structure, economic circumstances and ethnicity.
The second phase of the project will follow
these children as they enter school.
“Even though more than half of all poor
children live in rural areas, most of the
research about children living in poverty is
based on studies of urban children. Therefore,
policies designed to help children living in
poverty may not best meet the needs of those
living in rural areas,” said Lynne Vernon-
Feagans, the study’s principal investigator and
FPG fellow. “Our findings will have important
implications for local and national policies and
the services most needed by rural families.”
For example, geographic isolation is
a condition unique to rural living, said
Vernon-Feagans, who is also William C.
Friday Distinguished Professor of Early
Childhood, Intervention and Literacy and
professor of psychology.
The first phase of the Family Life Project
found that isolation was related to family
dynamics. Mothers had less instability with a
partner but worked more hours per week, and
many families had to travel long distances to
work and child care. This often led to poorer
child outcomes, although positive parenting
helped to offset the negative effects.
As the project moves forward, researchers
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Grant will allow rural life study to continue
First-grader Martin Rayo works
with teacher Kristy Kane during
a reading session at Louisburg
Elementary School. Although
the literacy initiative is not part
of the new study by the FPG
Child Development Institute
and the School of Education,
it is aimed at a similar goal:
helping children in rural areas.
Through the new National
Institutes of Health-funded
study, researchers will exam-ine
how young children in rural
areas and small towns make
the transition to school.
In a recent State of the University speech,
Chancellor James Moeser described private funds
as the fuel that propels a university to greatness.
With the close of the Carolina First
Campaign, which raised a record $2.38 billion
over the past eight years, the University has
surpassed expectations in that quest.
“This campaign shows that we have not gone
from good to great; we have gone from good
to pre-eminent,” Moeser told the Board of
Trustees at its Jan. 24 meeting.
Not only did Carolina First set a University
record, it was also the fifth-largest completed
campaign in higher education and the largest
completed fundraising drive at a university in
the South. A $9 million pledge to the School of
Pharmacy from Fred Eshelman of Wilmington
pushed the campaign to that historic mark. (See
related story on page 2.)
“The campaign’s success attests to the
tremendous leadership of our volunteers and the
hard work of so many of our faculty and staff,”
Moeser said. “Thanks to them and our donors,
Carolina First has provided us with a margin
of excellence that will enable us to be of even
greater service to our students, as well as citizens
here in North Carolina, across the nation and
around the globe.”
Carolina First, which supported Carolina’s
vision to be the nation’s leading public university,
began July 1, 1999, and ended Dec. 31, 2007.
The original $1.8 billion goal was raised to
$2 billion in October 2005. Last February, a
$50 million pledge from Dennis Gillings, chief
executive officer of Quintiles Transnational, and
his wife, Joan, to support the School of Public
Health pushed the campaign past its goal.
Each professional school and unit exceeded
individual goals as well. The campaign also
boasted yearly records for commitments ($363.6
million), including pledges, and gifts ($250.8
million), both set in fiscal year 2007.
The final $2.38 billion raised included:
n $419.5 million for faculty, including 208
new endowed professorships, eight more than
the goal;
n $345.2 million for students, including 577
new merit and need-based scholarships and 196
new graduate fellowships;
n $579.7 million for research;
n $654.7 million for strategic initiatives; and
n $184.2 million for facilities.
Nearly every publicly funded building now
includes private support as well, Moeser said.
The master plan for Carolina North,
along with a concept plan for an Innovation
Center that would serve as its gateway
project, shared center stage at the Chapel
Hill Town Council meeting on Jan. 23.
Jack Evans, executive director of Carolina
North, said the twin presentations of the
master plan and a concept plan for the In-novation
Center were important steps for the
town’s approval. Both marked a culmination
of months of planning on a host of fronts.
In spring 2006, Chancellor James Moeser
appointed a cross-section of University
administrators and trustees, elected leaders and
community representatives to a Leadership
Advisory Committee (LAC) for Carolina
North that over a series of meetings arrived
at a broad consensus of underlying principles
to guide development. The committee also
identified other areas, such as the scope of
housing to be built on the property.
With these principles in place, the
University embarked over the past year on
what Evans described as a series of parallel
processes that have reached, or are soon to
reach, a conclusion.
Other parts of the process include a fiscal
equity study to measure the interplay of
financial costs and benefits of Carolina North
on the town and a major transit study to explore
transportation alternatives that would lessen the
dependence on cars.
Other completed studies include infra-structure
needs and an ecological study of
the entire 963-acre tract to ensure that envi-ronmentally
sensitive areas, especially water-sheds,
remain undeveloped and protected.
Evans has also led a series of community
forums sponsored by the University. The
purpose of these meetings was not only to
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Pledge generates
$18 million for
cancer research
Fred Eshelman may not have intended to
propel the Carolina First Campaign into the
history books, but his $9 million pledge to the
School of Pharmacy did just that. The University
now has completed
the fifth-largest cam-paign
in higher educa-tion
and the largest at
a southern university.
The board of North
Carolina’s University
Cancer Research Fund
matched the pledge,
generating a total investment of $18 million.
The funds will support cancer research by the
School of Pharmacy and the UNC Lineberger
Comprehensive Cancer Center that focuses on
genetics, individualized cancer therapy, drug
discovery and drug delivery.
Calling the Eshelman pledge another
great example of public-private partnership,
Chancellor James Moeser said it also
showed the significant impact of leveraging
commitments from multiple sources.
“Dr. Eshelman’s support epitomizes what
this campaign has been all about,” Moeser said.
“Carolina First truly transformed this university.
Every dollar has made us a stronger institution,
and every donor has our deepest gratitude.”
Eshelman is CEO and founder of
Wilmington-based PPD Inc., a global contract
research organization providing discovery,
development and post-approval services as
well as compound partnering programs to the
biopharmaceutical industry.
His latest pledge builds on his $20 million
commitment to the School of Pharmacy in
2003. That marked the largest commitment
ever to a U.S. pharmacy school.
Bob Blouin, dean of the School of Pharmacy,
said that Eshelman wanted to keep the school
moving forward. He pointed to NIH funding
to the school as an example of its progress.
In 2003, the school ranked 22nd among the
nation’s pharmacy schools in NIH funding.
Last year it had climbed to eighth.
“Thanks to the support of generous donors,
our aggressive pursuit of research funding and
partners like Lineberger, we have had great
success in attracting really top-flight scientists to
the school over the past few years,” Blouin said.
“That kind of effort puts considerable strain
on resources, and we expected that it would take
five years to have all our new centers working at
full capacity,” he said. “Dr. Eshelman wanted to
significantly shorten that time frame.”
Moeser said Eshelman’s commitment marked a
“particularly appropriate high note to go out on.”
Carolina students step up water conservation
Students in Carolina’s residence halls
are taking shorter showers — judging
from the first month’s results of the Water
Conservation Challenge, the contest
between Carolina’s on-campus
residents and their counterparts at
N.C. State to see which campus can
save the most water in residence halls.
Before the contest kicked off
Nov. 10, administrators at each school
determined a baseline water use per
student per day: 34 gallons at UNC,
31 at N.C. State. The competition’s
three criteria and results for the first
month are:
n Decrease in gallons of water used
per student per day — four gallons at
both campuses;
n Average water use per student per
day — 30 at UNC, 27 at N.C. State;
and an
n Overall reduction in gallons of water
used per student per day — 12 percent at
UNC, 13 percent at N.C. State.
In remarks to the Board of Trustees
last week, both Chancellor James Moeser
and Student Body President Eve Carson
reiterated the importance of conservation.
“Students in campus housing are continu-ing
to conserve, engaging in some friendly
competition with their peers at N.C. State,
but Trustee Carson and I are hoping to
encourage our students to do even more,”
Moeser said. “The contest ends Feb. 20 so
we need our students to keep their focus
on water conservation. We’re hoping for a
strong performance during this last phase
of the competition.”
When the contest ends, the school that
leads in at least two of the three categories
will be declared the winner. Updates for the
second month of competition and the final
results will be posted at rha.unc.edu.
The student competition, while under-taken
in the spirit of fun, emphasizes the
ongoing need for the campus and
local communities to conserve water.
The Triangle area has been in a severe
drought since last summer with no
immediate relief in the forecast.
As of Jan. 25, local reservoirs were
at about 40 percent of capacity, with
an estimated 205 days of water on
hand based on the average demand
in the last 30 days and assuming no
additional rainfall.
Water-saving tips from the
University’s Sustainability Office and
the Orange Water and Sewer Authority,
which provides water to the Chapel
Hill-Carrboro area including the
University, include: turning off water
while shampooing, shaving and
brushing teeth; collecting bath/shower water
while it heats up to use for watering plants;
not leaving water running while washing
dishes; cutting down on laundry loads and
running only full loads; using dry clean-up
methods whenever possible; and reporting
any plumbing leaks in residence halls
to Facilities Services Housing Support,
966-2471, or fixmyroom@fac.unc.edu.
Chancellor search ahead of other AAU campuses
The search for the University’s next
chancellor is ahead of most other Association
of American Universities (AAU) member
campuses with vacancies.
“We’re far in front of almost all of them,”
consultant Bill Funk told the Chancellor
Search Committee at a Jan. 24 meeting.
Funk, who heads the Dallas-based R.
William Funk and Associates, briefed the
committee about recent developments with
searches across the nation and the South.
Among AAU campuses, private Vanderbilt
University is “probably the one institution on
a similar timeline” with Carolina, Funk said.
Among public AAU campuses, the
University of Wisconsin at Madison has
not yet formed a search committee to seek a
successor to Chancellor John Wiley,
who last month announced plans to step
down in September following a nearly
eight-year term.
Funk, hired last fall by the committee,
specializes in searches at AAU campuses. The
AAU is an organization of research universities
devoted to maintaining a strong system of
academic research and education.
Among other searches, Funk cited
one to lead the 10-campus University of
California system. But he said this position
was far different than Carolina’s because of
responsibilities including managing three
national laboratories.
Funk’s firm was also retained by the UC
system to identify a successor to President
Robert Dynes following his announcement
last August about stepping down.
Funk also speculated about potential
university system and campus tensions as
factors in new vacancies at Louisiana State
University in Baton Rouge and the University
of Tennessee at Knoxville.
Sean O’Keefe, LSU chancellor since 2005,
resigned earlier this month effective June
1, and the system president will appoint an
acting chancellor starting Feb. 1.
Also this month, UT-Knoxville Chancellor
Loren Crabtree jointly announced with
the system president an immediate
resignation. An interim chancellor has
been named.
At the flagship University of Arkansas
at Fayetteville, Chancellor John White
announced his plans to retire later this year
after 11 years in office. The system president
recommended the university’s current vice
chancellor for university advancement to
become the next chancellor. Campus trustees
approved the appointment, effective July 1,
last Friday.
At the University of South Carolina,
President Andrew Sorenson has announced
his retirement plans, effective July 31, after
six years in office. A search committee began
meeting in mid-January.
“It’s a pretty active president and chancellor
marketplace right now,” Funk told the
University’s search committee members.
Additional meetings are scheduled in
February and March.
Water Watch
january 30, 2008 3
They have been called compliance point
guards, although they are reluctant to use that
metaphor. Juliann Tenney and Sherrie Settle
prefer to think of themselves as comprehensive
project managers.
However you describe them, the two women
who lead the University’s new Research
Compliance Office provide guidance on regula-tory
laws as University researchers navigate the
path from research concept to clinical trial.
“Compliance is an awkward nomenclature
for what should be expressed as doing the right
thing or following the rules,” said Tenney,
director of the office and institutional
research compliance officer. “At UNC we have
aspirational objectives to do the best job we
can, not just the job we are required to do.”
The people who run the trial — an experiment
that can involve either people or animals —
need to be aware of regulatory guidelines and
laws governing how the research should be
conducted, she said.
The same is true for the groups that approve,
monitor and review the experiments for
ethics and safety: the Institutional Review
Board (IRB) for human subjects and the
Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee
(IACUC) for animals.
“These groups, which are made up of
people within the institution and from the
community, represent the real conscience of
the institution,” Tenney said.
Typically, researchers and regulators know
the minutiae of the regulations very well, she
said. The Research Compliance Office wants
to create a process that supports those efforts
and forges a partnership.
Supporting the research process
Tenney and Settle, the office’s assistant
director and the conflict of interest officer,
step in to develop systems to help people
understand operational responsibilities and
create mechanisms to ensure that they are
performed effectively.
“We don’t ‘do compliance to people,’ which
is what people sometimes think,” Tenney
said. “Researchers are responsible for running
a compliant process and we’re here to help
make sure that happens.”
With its roots in the Office of University
Counsel, the Research Compliance Office be-came
a separate entity when Tenney and Settle
came on board last year. The office reports
directly to Chancellor James Moeser, but is also
guided by Leslie Strohm, vice chancellor and
general counsel, and Tony Waldrop, vice chan-cellor
for research and economic development.
Compliance issues run the gamut from privacy
and consent to the health, safety and ethical
treatment of participants to conflict of interest.
“All institutions are dealing with conflict
of interest because we want to be sure that
research isn’t biased due to a financial or
even a university interest,” Tenney said.
“We want the research to be pure, meaning
uncluttered by other considerations of financial
improvement or enhancement.”
Ideally, the work of the Research Compliance
Office is so interwoven into the research
process that people interact with the office
without even knowing it, Settle said.
For instance, the conflict of interest report-ing
system, which the office launched Jan. 2,
walks investigators through a series of screening
questions when they submit a proposal to
RAMSeS, the Office of Research Information
Systems’ online research proposal tool.
“It is a very simple six-question radio button
process,” Settle said. “When they use it,
researchers have actually already interfaced
with our office, but from their perspective they
are just finishing their research proposal. And
that’s the way it should be.”
In that same unobtrusive manner, the
compliance officers delve into relevant laws and
regulations whenever issues or concerns arise.
“Our mantra is to be audit-ready all the
time, so if it should happen that a review
occurs, our goal is to get through it successfully,”
Tenney said.
Wide range of experience
While the University’s office is new, both
Tenney and Settle are veterans when it comes
to research oversight.
Settle joined the office last May after a decade
in the School of Pharmacy, where she served
as grants management officer, then as admin-istrative
director for research and graduate
education. In 2005, she received a UNC
Excellence in Research Administration Award
in honor of her work.
Before coming to Carolina, Settle worked
in research programs at Virginia Tech, the
University of Pittsburgh and the University
of Virginia. She holds a bachelor’s degree in
English from Virginia and master’s degrees in
business administration and health administra-tion
from Pittsburgh.
Tenney, who joined the office in July, held
similar positions at Duke University for nearly
10 years. After designing and leading the
medical school’s compliance initiative for six
years, she became the first director of Duke’s
Institutional Ethics and Compliance Program.
Tenney earned her bachelor’s degree
in English and history at Carolina and her
law degree at Duke. Her private practice
experience focused on general civil law, and
she worked in the public sector as assistant
secretary of the N.C. Department of
Commerce, director of corporate and economic
development of the N.C. Biotechnology
Center and head of the Southern Growth
Policies Board before heading to Duke.
Although Carolina is much larger than Duke,
UNC system explores greater flexibility in
managing human resources programs
The Employee Forum on Jan. 9 discussed
the implications of a draft proposal from a
21-member human resources task force that
would give universities in the UNC system
greater flexibility to develop and manage
human resources programs.
The task force was composed of representa-tives
from each of the 16 campuses and included
chancellors, provosts, chief financial officers,
human resource officers, faculty and staff.
Charles T. “Chuck” Brink, a former
Employee Forum member who now represents
Carolina on the UNC system’s Staff Assembly,
made the presentation.
UNC President Erskine Bowles appointed
the task force to examine the application of
the State Personnel Act to the UNC system,
with the following goals:
n Improve the ability of the UNC system to
attract, reward and retain high-quality employees;
n Enable the UNC system to better meet
the needs of its employees; and
n Improve the efficiency of the UNC
system personnel operations.
According to an executive summary of
the draft report Brink presented, the task
force will recommend that the UNC system
request legislation granting it authority to
create “substantially equivalent” human
resource programs, subject to the approval of
the Office of State Personnel and the State
Personnel Commission.
Forum Chair Ernie Patterson said this was
a complex, important issue and that forum
members should try to understand the pro-posal’s
implications if it should go into effect.
A key issue, he said, was to understand pre-cisely
what “substantially equivalent” means.
Brink said the UNC system decided to seek
greater flexibility under the State Personnel
Act after conducting an internal study in 2006–
07 to determine the feasibility of creating a
separate personnel system for all UNC system
campuses. That idea was ultimately rejected.
If Bowles signs off on the task force’s pro-posal,
it could be presented to the UNC Board
of Governors in February. If approved by the
BOG, the idea would be forwarded for consid-eration
in March to the N.C. General Assembly.
Other action, information
In other action, the forum voted unani-mously
to approve a resolution requesting
that Chancellor James Moeser institute a
moratorium on any new outsourcing that
would result in a reduction in force until
formal policies and guidelines are in place to
address all legal and policy matters related
to outsourcing.
In another matter, Jack Evans, executive
director of Carolina North, gave an
hour-long presentation on the project.
Evans reiterated that Carolina North would
address the University’s need for space now
that the main campus is fully built. In addition,
he said, it will help strengthen the University’s
research links with the private sector.
Currently, Carolina ranks 97th in attract-ing
private funds to support research, he said.
Carolina North will be a key to improving
that ranking.
University officials had an informal
conversation with the Chapel Hill Town
Council about Carolina North on Jan. 13 and
made a formal presentation to the council at its
Jan. 23 meeting. (See story on page 1.)
See Compliance, page 13
EMPLOYE E FORUM
Faculty contribute
to Carolina First
campaign success
When it comes to fundraising, success helps
breed success.
The recently completed Carolina First cam-paign,
which brought in a record $2.38 billion,
created 208 new endowed professorships, eight
more than the goal. The success of that effort
was due in large part to the stature of Carolina’s
faculty, Matt Kupec, vice chancellor for Univer-sity
advancement, told the Faculty Council at its
Jan. 25 meeting.
“You are our shining star that helped us be
able to recruit and retain outstanding faculty
members,” he said.
Besides being the fifth-largest completed
campaign in the nation, the eight-year fundrais-ing
effort exceeded expectations in many areas.
Every professional school and unit surpassed
its individual goal, and the percentage of money
contributed by Carolina’s alumni exceeded the
national average. Alumni donations made up
36 percent of the campaign goal, compared to
28 percent nationwide.
“At Carolina, we are blessed to have some
very loyal alumni who want to give back
and make sure future generations have the
opportunity to thrive here,” Kupec said.
Through two new committees, the University
strengthened its ties to women, recruiting
105 women to serve on boards across campus,
and to minorities, adding 62 minority members
to Carolina’s Board of Visitors during the course
of the campaign. In turn, those groups yielded
many new donors — 18,000 additional female
donors in the past three years and 4,300 new
minority donors between 2000 and 2006.
Even with the campaign’s success, Kupec
said, the University has to look toward its next
campaign, probably in 2011.
“If we’re going to make this a better state,
nation and world, we can’t afford to stop engaging
our alumni in the life of this institution,” he said.
“We want to continue to showcase the things
you are doing. The key is really to talk about
what you’re doing every day; it doesn’t matter
whether we’re in a campaign or not.”
Bernadette Gray-Little, executive vice
chancellor and provost, said that one priority
for the next fundraising campaign would be
graduate student fellowships.
“The Graduate School has raised private
funds for fellowships, and we have dramatically
more than we did five years ago,” she said, “but
it still is not enough.”
Other action
The council unanimously approved support
for a campuswide sabbatical program and agreed
to begin a dialogue about how such a program
could be structured.
Harvey Seim, associate professor of marine
sciences and chair of the Faculty Research Com-mittee,
said most peer institutions had regular
sabbatical programs. He presented the idea as a
way to help grow Carolina’s research enterprise.
The University has set as a priority generating
$1 billion in annual external funding by 2015.
“The committee thought a sabbatical
program could provide time to think, which
University creates research compliance partner
See Faculty Council, page 13
FACULTY COUNCIL
4 University Gazette
Mellon Foundation funds innovative interdisciplinary civil rights scholarship
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation of New
York will support a collaborative effort on civil
rights between the University and UNC Press.
The three-year, $937,000 grant will support “
Publishing the Long Civil Rights Movement,”
a project that, through print and digital
publications, will underscore one of Carolina’s
longstanding academic
priorities: interdisciplinary
civil rights scholarship.
The four principal investi-gators
who will lead the proj-ect
are Kate Douglas Torrey,
director of the UNC Press;
Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, direc-tor
of the Southern Oral His-tory
Program in the Center
for the Study of the Ameri-can
South; Julius Chambers,
director of the Center for
Civil Rights in the School
of Law; and Richard Szary,
associate university librarian
for special collections.
The grant to Carolina
is part of a larger program
at the Mellon Foundation
intended to advance hu-manistic
scholarship by de-veloping
new and thought-ful
ways of connecting
the publishing activities
of university presses with
the academic priorities of
their universities. Other
grants in this program have
been made to the Univer-sity
of Minnesota and the
University of Pennsylvania.
Hall’s essay, “The Long
Civil Rights Movement
and the Political Uses of
the Past,” delivered as her
presidential address to the
National Organization of
American Historians, provided a foundation
for the Mellon grant.
An expanded framework
A central theme of Hall’s essay was that the
narrative of the Civil Rights Movement had
been erroneously limited to the tumultuous
decade between the 1954 Supreme Court
decision Brown v. Board of Education, which
made school segregation illegal, and the Civil
Rights Act of 1964.
Hall argued that the “long Civil Rights
Movement” began with the liberal and radical
milieu of the late 1930s and continued with
current national issues, including the political
and legal backlash leading to a resegregation of
schools and neighborhoods and that threatened
the social aims inherent in the Brown decision.
Hall, in effect, widened the window of civil
rights in both time and geography to include
contemporary issues such as race and the public
schools, economic justice, and the women’s and
gay rights movements.
In so doing, Hall sought to debunk popularized
notions of the Civil Rights Movement that,
in effect, diminished its lasting meaning and
obscured its continuing power and relevance.
“By confining the civil rights struggle to the
South, to bowdlerized heroes, to a single halcyon
decade, and to limited, non-economic objectives,
the master narrative simultaneously elevates
and diminishes the movement,” Hall wrote.
“It ensures the status of the classical phase
as a triumphal movement in a larger American
progress narrative, yet it undermines its gravi-tas.
It prevents one of the most remarkable mass
movements in American history from speaking
effectively to the challenges of our time.”
Expanding the narrative to the events that
came before and after the classically defined
Civil Rights Movement, Hall argued, will
reinforce the moral authority of those who
fought for change in those years.
“At the same time,” she wrote, “I want to
make civil rights harder. Harder to celebrate as a
natural progression of American values. Harder
to cast as a satisfying morality tale. Most of all,
harder to simplify, appropriate and contain.”
With these concerns in mind, the Southern
Oral History Program, which Hall directs,
began gathering interviews on the “long Civil
Rights Movement” throughout the South,
focused especially on school desegregation and
re-segregation, economic justice and various
social movements that grew out of the Civil
Rights Movement in the 1970s and 1980s.
Opening rich possbilities
Torrey said that in addition to challenging
the conventional understanding of the
chronology of the Civil Rights Movement, the
grant-funded project would be challenging the
usual geographic, demographic and thematic
definitions of civil rights.
“We can also see how the oral history
component will open up all kinds of rich
possibilities,” Torrey said. “Through this grant,
we will be able to explore new opportunities
for linking audio materials with textual materi-als
and photographs to reinforce and illuminate
scholarly and legal analysis.”
Chambers, whose legal career spans much of
the long history of civil rights that Hall seeks to
reveal, said he was excited about the possibility
the grant would afford to allow scholars from
across campus to share ideas and work together
to bring new insights to intractable problems.
Chambers, who is perhaps the nation’s most
renowned school desegregation attorney, said
he had a particular interest in exploring the neg-ative
effect that recent resegregation has had on
educational opportunities for children.
For 15 years, Chambers worked with com-munity
groups in Charlotte to chart the course
of Swann v. Charlotte/Mecklenburg Board of
Education, a case that eventually made Char-lotte
a national leader in school desegregation.
In his current work, Chambers is monitoring
recent court rulings that undermine the legal
underpinnings of desegregation.
“I have always been interested in forging col-laborations
with the different disciplines,” Cham-bers
said. “This grant will help tremendously,
both by making it easier to communicate more
effectively and by encouraging more disciplines
to become involved with our work at the center.”
Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Ber-nadette
Gray-Little said Carolina and UNC
Press are eminently qualified to tell the expand-ed
story of civil rights that Hall’s work envisions.
“The University and UNC Press share a rich
history and national reputation for the study and
documentation of the Civil Rights Movement
in the United States,” Gray-Little said. “Within
the University our expertise spreads across
disciplines and programs, from the well
established Southern Oral History Program in
the Center for the Study of the American South
to the relatively new Center for Civil Rights at
the UNC Law School.”
Advancing University priorities
Gray-Little said the focus on the long Civil
Rights Movement would directly advance
many of the University’s academic priorities,
including efforts to extend interdisciplinary
research, education and public service.
Torrey said Carolina, as the oldest public
university in the nation, and
the UNC Press, as the oldest
university publishing house
in the South, are recognized
nationally for a commit-ment
to public service and
exploring controversial issues
that challenge personal and
public thinking.
Since the late 1920s,
UNC Press has sustained an
ongoing program of books
by and about African-Amer-icans,
she said, and this grant
will build on the press’s
robust and progressive
publishing program.
“We are very pleased
about this outstanding Mel-lon
Foundation grant that
will help to strengthen the
collaboration between UNC
Press and UNC-Chapel Hill.
This enhanced collaboration
will create an exciting oppor-tunity
to generate some im-portant
work about the Civil
Rights Movement,” said
Harold Martin, UNC sys-tem
senior vice president for
academic affairs and member
of the Board of Governors
of UNC Press, an affiliate
unit of the UNC system.
Through the grant, Tor-rey
hopes to align UNC
Press with the strengths
of the University to create
a powerful platform that could serve as a
catalyst for collaboration and shared capital
investment in University-based publishing.
Torrey, who has been director of UNC
Press since 1992, said the press has long been
a leader in making its titles available to libraries
in non-print as well as traditional ink-on-paper
formats. Still, Torrey said, economic pres-sures
have limited the extent to which the press
can experiment with different digital forms.
“The expertise and the dollars involved in
entering the digital arena present a high hurdle
for university presses,” Torrey said. “The Mellon
Foundation has given us support to experiment.”
Digital publishing platform
Szary said the University Library, the Southern
Oral History Program and UNC Press would
bring a complementary set of expertise and skills
to the project. Szary was hired in fall 2006 to the
newly created position of director of the Louis
Round Wilson Library and associate university
librarian for special collections.
The Wilson Library collections include
the Manuscripts Department (comprising
the Southern Historical Collection, Southern
Folklife Collection, and University Archives),
the North Carolina Collection (including the
North Carolina Collection Gallery and Photo-graphic
Archives) and the Rare Book Collection.
See Mellon, page 12
CHAMBERS
Director of the UNC Center for
Civil Rights, Chambers gradu-ated
first in his class from Car-olina’s
School of Law in 1962.
In 1964, he opened his law
practice in Charlotte. Cham-bers
and his partners argued
a number of civil rights cases
before the U.S. Supreme Court,
including the landmark Swann
v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg
Board of Education. He also
led the NAACP Legal Defense
and Educational Fund Inc.
before serving as chancellor
of N.C. Central University.
hal
Founder and director of
the Southern Oral History
Program, Hall is a former
president of the Organiza-tion
of American Historians
and the Southern Historical
Association and was the
founding president of the
Labor and Working Class
History Association. In 1997,
she received UNC’s Distin-guished
Teaching Award for
graduate teaching, and in
1999 she was awarded a Na-tional
Humanities Medal for
her work.
szary
Director of the Louis Round
Wilson Library and associate
University librarian for special
collections, Szary is responsi-ble
for merging the individual
collections into an integrated
special collections library for
current and future needs. He
also administers the library’s
expanding digital collections
department. Szary came to
UNC in 2006 from the Yale
University Library and previ-ously
from the Smithsonian
Institution’s Office of Informa-tion
Resource Management.
torey
Director of UNC Press since
1992, Torrey had previously
served as the press’s assistant
director and editor-in-chief. She
came here from her post as
editor-in-chief at the University
Press of Kansas. A former
president of the Association of
American University Presses
and Women in Scholarly Pub-lishing,
Torrey earned a B.A.
from Stanford University and
an M.A. from the University of
Chicago and completed work
toward a Ph.D. from the Univer-sity
of Massachusetts, Amherst.
january 30, 2008 5
keep elected officials, University employees
and area residents updated on the latest
developments, but also to respond to concerns
and incorporate suggestions as the plan
has evolved.
Complicating this interplay of perspectives
and expectations between the town and the
University is the Innovation Center and
the University’s desire to have it approved
through a special-use permit before the town
approves the master plan, which would guide
development of a 250-acre parcel of Carolina
North over the next 50 years.
The 85,000 square-foot building is de-signed
to hold wet and dry laboratory
space, office space and technical and busi-ness
development resources designed to
successfully identify, evaluate and launch
new companies across many different areas
within the University’s research programs.
It will also include space for the University’s
Office of Technology as well as space to
accommodate large conferences.
Comments at the council meeting
Evans said the Jan. 23 meeting marked the
first time community members have had an
opportunity to comment while the council was
in session, but the eighth time they have had an
opportunity to comment on either the master
plan or the Innovation Center.
Of the 16 speakers at the meeting, all but
four were strongly in favor of the building,
including many who expressed support and
excitement about the jobs it would create
for Chapel Hill’s “creative class” of workers.
Too many such workers now leave town
for Raleigh and Research Triangle Park to
find employment commensurate with their
skills. The emergence of Carolina North,
beginning with the Innovation Center, could
begin to change that, they said.
Newly elected council member Matt
Czajkowski pointed out that the Innovation
Center touched almost all of his goals for
Chapel Hill and that he would like to see a
review process started quickly.
For Evans and University architect Anna
Wu, the council meeting marked the second
time that day they made presentations
before equally crucial audiences — Evans
to review the master plan, Wu to review an
architectural rendering of a concept plan for
the Innovation Center at the University’s
Building and Grounds Committee.
The reactions of council members and
trustees were starkly different.
Trustees are eager to see the process
move beyond “talk,” in board Chair Roger
Perry’s words.
Many trustees are painfully aware that the
University has been talking about developing
Carolina North for more than a decade.
The formation of the LAC, and the
community meetings held over the past year,
have been aimed at developing community
consensus and engagement to help expedite
town approval and begin construction quickly.
During the committee discussion, trustee
Nelson Schwab asked Evans if there was a
timetable in place for approval of the master
plan and special-use permit.
Evans said he hoped the permit for the
Innovation Center could be approved by
October so that construction could begin by
early 2009. “We have plotted that out on the
calendar, but things have to fall in place in a
rather timely way for that to happen,” he said.
Approval of the master plan, however, is far
more complex, Evans said. During informal
talks between University and town leaders
earlier this month, town officials requested
that the University not submit any more
requests for special-use permits.
Evans said University officials viewed that
request as reasonable, provided that approval
for the Carolina North master plan proceeded
in an orderly and progressive way.
Many council members, however, sug-gested
that the time for talk was only
beginning and stressed the importance of
establishing, then following, a review and
approval process.
Seeking careful, deliberate process
Mayor Kevin Foy stressed the council’s plan
to move with careful, deliberate speed and said
that no decisions would be made that night to
approve the projects or even set a timeframe.
Foy said one of the first tasks was to decide
the kind of approval process needed.
Foy emphasized that the University had
not yet submitted the special-use permit for
town approval and that the presentation of the
Innovation Center served as an opportunity
for council members and residents to offer
constructive criticism that the University
could use to make needed improvements
before the formal approval process began.
During his presentation, Evans reviewed
sequential plans for Carolina North for five,
15 and 50 years while emphasizing that most
of the 250-acre section where development
would be concentrated is a “brownfield site”
that once served as Horace Williams Airport,
the town’s closed landfill and recently closed
municipal yard.
The term “brownfield site” refers to land
once occuppied by a permanent structure that
has become vacant or underused but has the
potential for redevelopment.
In her review of the site plan for the
Innovation Center, Wu stressed that modi-fications
had been made in response to the
town’s Community Design Commission
review and the community meetings.
Mixed reactions
Some forum speakers and council members
raised questions about why the University
would seek a special-use permit for the
Innovation Center before the master plan
was approved.
Others defended the idea and backed the
University’s sense of urgency to build the center.
A resident said she was “shocked” by
the special-use permit request, while
another resident, Scott Radway, suggested
that the Innovation Center could serve as a
valuable test case for future projects.
“The purpose of a master plan is not to
design individual buildings, it is to design a
framework so you can make better decisions
in the future,” Radway said.
On that score, Radway noted that Carolina
North already had seen more scrutiny than two
major private developments, Meadowmont and
Southern Village, approved by the town.
He also noted dramatic advances over the
past decade in energy conservation, carbon
footprinting and environmental sensitivity
that planners for Carolina North have
incorporated into their thinking.
Sense of urgency
University officials have emphasized that
building the Innovation Center has a growing
sense of urgency for a number of reasons,
chief among them the increasing need for
University researchers to be able to move their
discoveries from “the bench to the bedside.”
Joel Marcus of Alexandria Real Estate
Equities Inc., the company that would build
and own the Innovation Center and lease it
to University researchers, spoke briefly about
the role the center would play.
Marcus said the center would be an
accelerator for life sciences and information
technology. He explained the idea of “transla-tional
medicine” and how Alexandria creates
the kind of working environments that develop
new drugs. Marcus said his firm was also
committed to sustainability.
Some of the University’s leading research
experts including Shelton Earp, director
of the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer
Center, also came before the council.
“It turns out that applied science is
really what will affect people,” Earp said. “If
we want to become the best, we need the
Innovation Center.”
Some concerns expressed
In addition to these overarching themes,
various council members posed a range
of concerns.
Council members Jim Ward and Ed Harrison
spoke about the undeveloped acreage and
how it could serve as an outdoor classroom
for stormwater and other research.
Mayor Pro Tem Bill Strom raised a concern
about water availability, suggesting that
the University become part of the town’s
stormwater utility. Strom said he was also
concerned that the amount of housing
currently envisioned would be insufficient.
Two people, a private pilot and a represen-tative
of a private pilots’ group, challenged the
planned closing of Horace Williams Airport,
where the University’s medical operations
and private pilots have been based for more
than 70 years.
Moeser has said he believes the Area Health
Education Centers (AHEC) program can
What happens when bacteria become
resistant to antibiotics? The question in-trigued
Matt Redinbo, professor of chemistry,
biochemistry and bio-physics
— not just from
a scientific standpoint,
but also from a public
health perspective.
Discovering how
to kill antibiotic-resistant
bacteria in
patients could stop
the dangerous spread
of E. coli, staph
infections and hos-pital-
acquired pneumonia. Yet many
big pharmaceutical companies are not
interested in developing products to fight
these resistant strains of bacteria, leaving
it to University researchers like Redinbo
and his team to turn their discoveries
into life-saving products for the public.
“We got interested in this, in part,
because big pharma doesn’t work on this as
much as they used to and, in part, because in
my kid’s lifetime, a simple kidney infection
is going to be a major problem,” Redinbo
said. “It’s going to take someone who is
untethered a priori by a profit motive to
make key discoveries. Then, when the
science is in place, a translation to drug
development is the necessary next step.”
So, with the help of the Office of
Technology Development, Redinbo founded
Exigent Pharmaceuticals Inc. in 2007. The
office helped him apply for a patent and
begin to develop a product. But Redinbo will
have to go off campus to find the space needed
for his spin-off company.
“That’s where the Carolina Innovation
Center will come in perfectly,” Redinbo said.
“We need laboratory space. We need a space
where I can meet with the management team
of that company. I need it to be close to where
I meet with my research team here at Carolina.
I can’t imagine a better situation than having
the Innovation Center just up the road.”
Redinbo’s company could be a prime tenant
in the proposed Innovation Center at Carolina
North. The business accelerator, to be built
in partnership with Alexandria Real Estate
Equities of Pasadena, Calif., is designed to
house start-up companies with direct ties to
UNC research.
Carolina will provide the site, while
Alexandria will build the center and retain
ownership and hold leasing rights for 40 years.
As the first building slated for the mixed-use
academic campus, the Innovation Center will
set the tone for Carolina North.
“I believe our faculty need this facility and
they need it now,” Chancellor James Moeser
has said. “Many faculty working on start-up
companies have had to find space outside
the University.”
Faculty like Matt Redinbo. He is interested
in the Innovation Center for the space he
could use to grow his company, Exigent
Pharmaceuticals, and he is also excited about
the national buzz that would be created by
a new business accelerator associated with
the University.
“It makes Chapel Hill and the RTP area an
even better place to come and do research,”
Redinbo said. “We want Chapel Hill and
North Carolina to be at the very top of that list.”
Carolina North from page 1
See Carolina North, page 13
redinbo
Chemistry researcher sees potential of Innovation Center
6 University Gazette
(CCPS) solicits nominations for three awards:
the Ned Brooks Award for Public Service, the
Robert E. Bryan Public Service Award and the
Office of the Provost Engaged Scholarship
Award. These awards recognize individual
students, faculty, staff and University units
for extraordinary public service and engaged
scholarship. Winners will receive a monetary
award and be honored at the annual Public
Service Awards luncheon in April. Submit
nominations by 5 p.m., Feb. 15. (www.unc.
edu/cps/public-service-awards-index.php.
E-mail ccps@unc.edu; call 843-7568.)
n Nominations are now being accepted for
the following UNC honorary societies: The
Order of the Golden Fleece, The Order of the
Grail-Valkyries, The Order of the Old Well
and The Frank Porter Graham Graduate
and Professional Student Honor Society.
Each of these societies has a long history of
recognizing outstanding members of the
UNC community. (gpsf-wiki.unc.edu/
confluence/display/fpghs/Nominations.)
n Nominations are open through 5 p.m.,
Feb. 27 for the 2008 University Awards for
the Advancement of Women, sponsored by
the Office of the Chancellor, the Office of the
Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost and
the Carolina Women’s Center. This award
recognizes contributions to the advance-ment
of women at the University. Each year,
three individuals — one faculty member, one
and David Gardner on Feb. 25 from 5:30 to
6:30 p.m. in Koury Auditorium of the McColl
Building. The Gardners are co-founders of
the investment service The Motley Fool.
Reserve seats by e-mailing kfbsrsvp@unc.
edu or calling 843-7787.
Nominations for campus awards
n Feb. 7 is the deadline to make nomi-nations
for C. Knox Massey Distinguished
Service Awards. The criterion is “unusual,
meritorious or superior contribution made
by an employee, past or present, to the
University …” Chancellor James Moeser
will present each of the six recipients with an
award of $6,000 during the spring luncheon.
Make nominations by letter — including
the signature of the nominator, or online —
logging in with Onyen and password. No fax
or e-mail nominations will be accepted. (www.
unc.edu/masseyawards. Call Carolyn Atkins,
962-1536; e-mail carolyn_atkins@unc.edu.)
n Nominations for Chancellor’s Awards
for Excellence in Student Activities and Lead-ership
are due Feb. 8.
Complete information, including an
online nomination form, can be found at
www.unc.edu/chancellorsawards/nom.
html. For more information, call Tammy
Lambert (966-3128) or e-mail lambert2@
email.unc.edu.
n The Carolina Center for Public Service
Upcoming lectures on campus
n Jewish music and Jewish merchants in the
post-Civil War South are among topics to be
explored in a spring lecture series presented by
the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies. All are
held at 7:30 p.m. in the Stone Center’s theater.
The next talk, “Jewish Merchants and
Former Slaves: The Economic Relationship
in the Post-Civil War South,” is Feb. 4 and
presented by Eric Goldstein, director of the
Graduate Program in Jewish Studies at
Emory University. (www.unc.edu/ccjs/
events.html; call 962-1509.)
n Also on Feb. 4, a project that helps
developing countries improve their computer
skills and digital communications is the
focus of a lecture presented by Cliff Missen of
Widernet.org and egranary.org. He speaks
about his efforts and successes in bringing the
“Internet in a Box” to places where wires and
wireless don’t reach, particularly in Africa.
The event is held in the Pleasants Family
Room of Wilson Library from 3 to 5 p.m.
n Siva Vaidhyanathan is the featured
presenter at the 2008 Henderson Lecture,
hosted by the School of Information and
Library Science on Feb. 6 at 3 p.m. in the
auditorium of the FPG Student Union. His
lecture is titled “The Human Knowledge
Project (Part 1): Four Conceptual Errors
concerning Massive Digital Library Projects.”
(sils.unc.edu/news/releases/2007/11_hen-dersonlecture.
htm.)
n The Institute for the Arts and Humanities
(IAH) hosts the 15th Mary Stevens Reckford
Memorial Lecture in European Studies on
Feb. 7 at 7:30 p.m. in the Tate-Turner-Kuralt
Auditorium. Joan W. Scott, Harold F. Lindner
Professor of Social Science at the Institute for
Advanced Study, Princeton University, speaks
on “COVER-UP: French Gender Equality
and the Islamic Headscarf.”
n Also on Feb. 7, the Morehead Planetarium
and Science Center presents the next topic
in its Current Science Forums series,
“Victory at Any Cost.” “Victory at Any Cost”
explores how steroids and other performance
enhancers affect the body and offers a
behind-the-scenes look at the science behind
these substances.
The program is free and open to the
public and begins at 7 p.m. in the planetarium’s
Banquet Hall. (Call 962-1236.)
n On Feb. 8 and Feb. 9 the IAH hosts the
sixth workshop of the “Gender, Politics and
Culture in Europe and Beyond series, titled
“What Is the Future of Feminist/Gender
History?” It is held in Hyde Hall.
The workshop is organized by Karen
Hagemann in cooperation with Chad Bryant,
both UNC history professors, and the UNC
Graduate Working Group on Gender
History. (www.unc.edu/gpc.)
n The Program in the Humanities
and Human Values presents “Israel at 60:
History, Politics, Problems and Prospects”
from 9:15 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Feb. 16. The
seminar features Gerhard L. Weinberg,
William Rand Kenan Jr. Professor of History
Emeritus. Tuition is $135. (www.unc.edu/
depts/human; call 962-1544.)
n The Kenan-Flagler Business School’s
Dean’s Speaker Series presents Tom Gardner
News Briefs
visualization technology
staff person and one undergraduate/graduate
student/postdoctoral scholar — may be selected
to receive the award. The faculty and staff
recipients each receive $5,000; the student/
postdoctoral scholar recipient receives $2,500.
All faculty and staff nominees must be
permanent employees.
To submit a nomination, use the online
form: www.unc.edu/oira/public/women_
nomination.html. For information, e-mail
Donna M. Bickford, director of the Carolina
Women’s Center (dbickford@unc.edu) or
call 962-8305.
Wendy’s closes at UNC Hospitals
Wendy’s, which operated on the second floor
of the N.C. Neurosciences Hospital for the past
seven years, closed at the end of the year. Its
contract expired and mutually was not extended.
The space will undergo renovations for a
new venue to be operated by the hospital’s food
services department. The hospital’s other dining
options are still open and many have new hours
or expanded services.
Celebrate life forces at garden’s
summer camp
This summer, the great outdoors will be a
place for investigation and discovery, as North
Carolina Botanical Garden campers celebrate
life forces — earth, air, fire, water and spirit.
Field trips, visiting scientists and naturalists, and
nature-inspired outdoor activities will inspire
campers to take a closer look at the wonders
of the natural world. Camp takes place on the
grounds of the garden.
Registration begins Feb. 11 for garden
members and Feb. 18 for nonmembers.
The session for 6- to 8-year olds is July 7 to
11. The session for 9- to 11-year olds is July
14 to 18. Both sessions meet from 8:30 a.m. to
3 p.m., with the option of extended hours
to 4:30 p.m.
Cost is $170 for members, $190 for nonmem-bers,
and $45 for the extended day option.
Applications for junior counselors will be
accepted from March 3 to May 5.
For information, call Nancy Easterling
(962-0522) or e-mail easterly@email.unc.edu.
PlayMakers to present Pulitzer
winners in rotating repertory
PlayMakers Repertory Company will bring
audiences the rotating repertory experience
through March 2, with two main-stage produc-tions
running on an alternating schedule.
Both plays — “Doubt, A Parable” and
“Topdog/Underdog” — are recent Broadway
hits that won Pulitzer Prizes. All performanc-es
are in the Paul Green Theatre, inside the
Center for Dramatic.
For a complete schedule of performances,
visit www.playmakersrep.org.
Public invited to attend free blood
clot seminar
The public is invited to attend a free seminar
on blood clots March 1, held from 8:45 a.m.
to 2:30 p.m. at the Hilton Raleigh-Durham
Airport at Research Triangle Park, 4810 Old Page
Road in Durham. Registration opens at 8 a.m.
Mike Conway, foreground, and William Schulz view a 360-degree view of the Old Well area in the
Social Computing Room at the new Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) engagement cen-ter
at ITS Manning. RENCI will host an open house on Feb. 7 from 3 to 6 p.m. so the University
community can tour the engagement center and its three research environments that use
cutting-edge visualization and collaboration technologies. In addition to the Social Computing
Room that uses 12 projectors to create a 360-degree display for virtual, immersive and interactive
experiences, people can also see the Showcase Room, with its tilted multi-projector dome
display that allows with data in a 180-degree field of view, and the Tele-immersion Room, with
its large rear-projection screen for 3-D stereoscopic viewing and long-distance collaboration
at more than four times high-density resolution. “The open house is a way to show the UNC
community what we have here and to get them thinking about possible partnerships with
RENCI,” said Ruth Marinshaw, engagement center director. RENCI was founded in 2004 as a
collaboration of Carolina, Duke and N.C. State universities and the state of North Carolina. For
information, refer to www.renci.org.
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january 30, 2008 7
The Carolina sponsor is the UNC Throm-bophilia
program at the Carolina Cardiovascular
Biology Center, as part of Deep Vein Throm-bosis
Awareness Month in March.
Register by Feb. 23 (unchealthcare.org/
bloodclotseminar). For more information, call
Cheryl Jeanneret (843-2568) or refer to www.
nattinfo.org.
Jazz festival begins Feb. 28
The Carolina Jazz Festival kicks off its 30th year
Feb. 28 through March 3 with performances
by the N.C. Jazz Repertory Orchestra, Kenny
Garrett, Nicholas Payton, Ron Westray, Steve
Wilson, Terri Lyne Carrington, and UNC and
the N.C. Regional High School jazz ensembles.
(www.unc.edu/music/jazzfest.)
Tour new basketball museum Feb. 7
The General Alumni Association’s Lifelong
Learning series hosts a tour and talk in the new
Carolina Basketball Museum Feb. 7, from 2:30
to 4 pm. Presenters include Adam Lucas, editor
of Tar Heel Monthly magazine; Steve Kirschner,
associate athletic director/communications;
and Fred King, freelance associate producer
for ESPN.
The museum is located in the new home for
much of Carolina athletics, the Ernie William-son
Athletics Center, located east of the Smith
Center and Koury Natatorium.
Call Steff Kinton (843-5115) to register for
the tour and more information.
‘PepperPot’ opens Feb. 22 at
Brown Gallery
An opening reception is Feb. 22 from 7 to
9 p.m. for “PepperPot,” a multimedia instal-lation
featuring the works of artists Andrea
Chung, Lauren Kelley, Morolake Odeleye and
Cosmo Whyte. Each artist places an emphasis
on making the materials at the center of the
meaning in their work.
The exhibit will be mounted at the Robert
and Sallie Brown Gallery and Museum in the
Stone Center. (ibiblio.org/shschch.)
Salamanders focus of workshop
North Carolina Botanical Garden naturalist
and writer Bob Palmatier discloses secrets about
the spotted salamanders’ instinctive migration
to the vernal pond and features of their life cycle
in a Feb. 23 workshop: “Spotted Salamanders of
the Vernal Pond.”
This family-oriented workshop includes
an indoor slide presentation and live spotted
salamanders in terrariums, as well as exploration
outside. (ncbg.unc.edu/pages/26.)
Learn traditional Arabic dances
The FedEx Global Education Center in
collaboration with the Arab Student Organiza-tion
offers women the free opportunity to learn
traditional Arabic belly dancing on Jan. 31, from
7 to 8 p.m. in Room 1005 of the FedEx Global
Education Center.
Dabka, a group dance that is the national
dance of Lebanon, Jordan, Syria and Palestine,
is taught from 8 to 9 p.m. in the center’s atrium.
Dress comfortably. Light refreshments will be
served. Parking may be available under the cen-ter
(corner of Pittsboro and McCauley Streets).
(global.unc.edu.)
ITS offers events on
Games4Learning discussion
Interested in how to integrate games into the
classroom to stimulate learning? ITS Teaching
and Learning sponsors follow-up events related
to the “Games for Learning: A Conversation
About our Future” conference held last October.
Campus faculty, staff and students are
invited to learn more about possibilities related
to games and learning. Full event descriptions
and registration information are available at
LearnIT.unc.edu/workshops.
n A Games4Learning discussion,
“Legal Issues in Virtual Worlds,” considers how
the law might be applied in virtual worlds, on
Feb. 5, from 12:45 to 1:45 p.m. in Room 203 of
the Campus Y.
n Games4Learning: “Exploring Haptic
Interfaces” demonstrates how a sense of touch
and motion can be incorporated in a computer
interface, on Feb. 14, from 2 to 3 p.m. in Dey
Hall’s Toy Lounge.
Many materials from the October sympo-sium
are available online: learnit.unc.edu/
games4learning.
Garden celebrates Darwin’s
birthday with two events
Two events hosted by the North Carolina
Botanical Garden will mark the birthday of
Charles Darwin, visionary biologist who was
born on Feb. 12, 1809.
n On Feb. 12, from 1 to 4 p.m., there is a
free Charles Darwin (and Abe Lincoln) birthday
tour of the garden. Johnny Randall, assistant
director for conservation, will lead a walk
through the garden grounds and trails.
n Also on Feb. 12, Wiliam Kimler, associate
professor of history at N.C. State University, dis-cusses
“Darwin the Botanist,” including the in-fluence
of botany and some famous botanists on
Darwin’s training and on his work as a naturalist.
The talk takes place from 7 to 9 p.m. Cost is
$10 or $8 for garden members. Call 962-0522
to register.
Register for HAVEN training
The HAVEN program (Help Advocate Vio-lence
Ending Now!) provides ally training for stu-dents
affected by sexual and relationship violence.
HAVEN allies serve as “safe spaces” for students
who need information, referrals and support.
If you are interested in learning more about
HAVEN training, e-mail Melinda Manning,
dean of students, (manning@email.unc.edu).
Allies will be required to attend one four-hour
training program and will receive a notebook of
resource material.
Applications accepted for research
small grant program
The deadline for University Research Council
(URC) Small Grant Program awards is
Feb. 25. The Office of the Vice Chancellor for
Research and Economic Development spon-sors
a small grant program for full-time faculty
and professional librarians at UNC. There are
two types of grants, Research and Publication. A
faculty member may submit only one URC
proposal each semester. The maximum total
award is $5,000 to be used over a two-year
period. (research.unc.edu/red/internal.
php#urc; call Jennifer Pruitt, 962-7757. )
N.C. capital punishment topic of
library panel, exhibit
“Facing Controversy: Struggling with Capital
Punishment in North Carolina” is the topic
of a panel discussion Feb. 5 in Wilson Library
and an exhibit of the same name in Wilson and
Davis libraries through Feb. 28.
The discussion takes place at 5:45 p.m.
in the Pleasants Family Assembly Room,
preceded by a reception at 5 p.m. Featured
speakers will be: Rex Gore, district attorney
for Bladen, Brunswick and Columbus
counties; Sen. Eleanor Kinnaird; Trina Seitz,
a professor of sociology at Appalachian State
University; and Seth Kotch, a Ph.D. candidate
at UNC. (Contact Liza Terll at 962-4207 or
liza_terll@unc.edu.)
The exhibits in Davis and Wilson Library
use original documents, photographs and
other primary source materials from the special
collections in Wilson Library to trace a timeline
through the many perspectives on capital
punishment in our state.
The exhibit and discussion are free and open
to the public. Both are sponsored by the South-ern
Historical Collection in Wilson Library
and contribute to the 2007-08 campuswide
discussion of the death penalty.
$4 million supports medical research programs
and Genomics Research Center, $560,310 for
the Program in Racial Disparities and Cardiovas-cular
Disease and $984,000 for the Collaborative
Initiative in Biomedical Imaging.
“This groundbreaking research will help diag-nose,
treat and prevent diseases that afflict far
too many North Carolinians, such as cancer, car-diovascular
disease and diabetes,” Dole said.
Pisano thanked Dole for her efforts to support
the University Cancer Research Fund. “We
promise to use these appropriations to do
great things for the people of North Carolina
and the nation,” said Pisano, who is also Kenan
Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Engi-neering
and director of the Biomedical Research
Imaging Center.
The North Carolina Cancer and Genomics
Research Center will be the lead research
institution in the Department of Defense’s
National Functional Genomics Center research
consortium, which researches the molecular
basis of cancer and develops tools to improve
early diagnosis and treatment.
The Program in Racial Disparities and Car-diovascular
Disease at UNC and East Carolina
University examines how racial disparities
contribute to differences in health care, espe-cially
with regard to cardiovascular disease.
The Collaborative Initiative in Biomedical
Imaging is a joint effort with UNC-Charlotte
that is revolutionizing the study and treat-ment
of complex diseases such as diabetes,
heart disease and cancer through state-of-the-
art imaging instruments.
Postdoctoral research associate Katie
Hoadley, center, briefs U.S. Sen. Elizabeth
Dole, right, and Etta Pisano, vice dean for
academic affairs in the School of Medicine,
left, on research efforts leading to breast
cancer treatment during Dole’s Jan. 18 visit to
the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer
Center. Hoadley works in the laboratory of
Chuck Perou, associate professor of genetics.
The lab is using DNA microarrays to identify
genes defining each type of breast cancer
and find mouse models that best fit the
characteristic of each subtype.
Dole was on campus to announce that
she helped secure nearly $4 million for three
major health research initiatives at Carolina:
$2.4 million for the North Carolina Cancer
8 University Gazette
Gerald Unks is no moralist. He will say that
he is no historian, either, but merely a teacher
who insists that students who enter his class will
understand history better when they leave it.
Or at least the part of history he covers in
Education 41, “The School in American
Society.” And that is a pretty big deal. Unks has
taught the class to more than 23,000 students
since he joined the faculty of the School of
Education 42 years ago.
It was in that course six or seven years ago, as he
was trying to explain de jure segregation, that the
inspiration for the 35-minute film, “The Town
Before Brown” sprang to mind when several
students asked him if segregation enforced by
law was everywhere in the South.
The students gave him incredulous stares.
“You’re kidding me,” they responded. They simply
could not believe that such a system ever existed.
Yes, he said, de jure segregation was uniform-ly
enforced across the states that comprised the
old Confederacy and into parts of the Midwest,
including southern Indiana and Illinois.
“It was everywhere, including Chapel Hill,”
Unks told them, then watched as their mouths
dropped in disbelief. The thought that an oppres-sive
system could have been practiced in a place
this progressive seemed unfathomable to them.
It was at that moment that Unks, professor of
the social foundation of education and winner of
three University teachings awards, knew he had
to do something.
Through his students, Unks came to realize
that the civil rights movement had been
well documented, but that the time period
immediately before it had not.
“The Town Before Brown” features inter-views
with individuals, both black and white,
who lived in Chapel Hill during the segregation
era. With their stories, Unks hoped to penetrate
his students’ skepticism.
Through the stories, the film reveals how
de jure segregation was an omnipresent fact of
life in Chapel Hill prior to the 1954 landmark
Brown v. Board of Education decision that
struck down the “separate but equal” clause that
had sanctioned segregated schools.
“That was the genesis of the project,” Unks
said. “Quite frankly, I was preparing a classroom
aid was all it was. But over time, it grew.”
It grew in scope and quality, Unks said, because
of the partnership he forged with Cary Gillenwa-ter,
now a first-year doctoral student in culture,
curriculum and change, who ended up serving
as co-producer and videographer of the film.
As Unks said, “We clicked.”
He estimates that 95 percent of the work —
the hours of research in the library, coupled with
the hours spent taping interviews — took place
in the past six months. But in the seven years
that have passed since that education class, the
idea took root in his imagination and in a folder
that grew increasingly thick as he kept adding
clippings for the project.
“It was always there,” Unks said, demanding
his full attention.
Segregation in Chapel Hill
The film is stylistically and thematically
organized with chapter heads that set up the
interviews, which are interspersed with still
photographs that reveal how segregation was
imposed and enforced in Chapel Hill and
throughout the South.
As one chapter heading described it,
“Segregation in Chapel Hill survived because of
tradition, law and fear.”
In 1953, segregation on the basis of
race was the law in 21 states as well as the
District of Columbia, one page read. Segre-gation
existed everywhere across the South,
including places presumed to be “liberal.”
Even in Chapel Hill.
In 1953, the town had
nine restaurants, five
barber shops, eight
beauty parlors, four
movie theaters, two fu-neral
parlors, two cem-eteries,
four schools and
one university. All were
segregated on the basis
of race.
As Reginald Smith,
one of the African-
Americans interviewed
for the film, expressed:
“Chapel Hill had an im-age
of being very liberal
outwardly. But under-neath
it, it was a little dif-ferent
sometimes. That
image was portrayed be-cause
of the University.”
Don Pollitt, professor
of law emeritus, is
interviewed in the film
to explain how de jure
segregation was sanc-tioned
under N.C. Gen-eral
Statute 115-2, which
stated: “The children of
the white race and the
children of the colored
race shall be taught in
separate public schools, but there shall be no
discrimination in favor of or to the prejudice of
either race. All white children shall be taught in
the public schools provided for the white race,
and all colored children shall be taught in the
public schools provided for the colored race …”
On paper, separate but equal was the law. But
in the everyday lives of white and black families,
the film portrays, it was a fiction whites bought
and blacks knew better than to believe.
But for generations, both whites and blacks ac-cepted
it as a way of life that would not be changed.
As Rebecca Clark, an African-American wom-an
interviewed for the film put it, “We was born
into segregation. “We didn’t know no different.”
Churches, even hospitals, were also
segregated, as were the schools.
The U.S. Supreme Court handed down
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
on May 17, 1954, striking down the legality of
“separate but equal.” But that way of life took
longer to change because of the white resistance
that continued for more than a decade afterward.
In Chapel Hill, no consequential effort was
made to desegregate public schools until 1961.
After the Civil Rights Act
In 1964, Congress enacted the Civil Rights
Act, making it a federal crime to segregate public
accommodations on the basis of race. Chapel Hill
High School was not desegregated until 1966.
The University was completely segregated,
too, and the administration made little effort
to change things, largely because it lacked the
political power or the legal jurisdiction to do so.
Wayne Bowers, a white man interviewed for
the film, said the University’s administration in
the 1940s and 1950s was caught between the
state legislature, which fought desegregation
as much as possible, and members of its own
faculty who pushed for integration.
As Bowers said, “They were always worried
about the money from Raleigh and Raleigh was
not very keen on the idea.”
In the film, there is a clip of a 1962 interview
of Frank Porter Graham provided by the
UNC Center for Public Television. Graham,
a former president of the Consolidated University,
explained that he did not have the power to
admit Negroes during his tenure.
“I couldn’t as president lawfully admit
Negroes to the University, but as president I
could say we don’t have to send them up to the
(movie) gallery,” Graham said.
The effect of that law, Pollitt said, was to
create a kind of “serfdom” by race. There were
no black students or faculty members at Carolina,
Pollitt said, and, “Every black who was employed
by the University had a broom or a shovel.”
As bad as that was, it could have been worse,
the film suggested. The level of intellect and
sophistication among the University faculty
mollified the full impact of segregation.
Erle Peacock, a white man who grew up
in segregated Chapel Hill, said faculty were
recruited from all over the country, including
Ivy League schools such as Harvard and Yale,
and many of them wrote and talked in support
of integration.
A white woman, Phyllis Barrett, said there
was no tension between the races in those days
and that relations were often friendly. “It really
was a paternal society in that we looked after
black people,” Barrett said.
But the friendship, and the respect that black
people accorded whites and whites accorded
blacks, were predicated on an unspoken but
strictly enforced code that made everything
between the two races separate as well as unequal.
Dorothy Stone, a black woman who grew up
in the period, recalled that black people were
always called by their first names, for instance,
yet were required to call the white people they
spoke with “Mr.” or “Mrs.” even if the white
person was 30 years younger.
As the film pinpointed, if you were white you
understood your sense of control, and if you were
black you understood what your place was, where
you could go and where you could not, what you
could say and how you should say it. And in the
end, it limited the kind of person you could be.
As Joel Williamson, professor of history
emeritus, described, segregation was “an assault
on the black person’s self-concept and sense of
self worth.”
Unks’ biggest surprise
Unks made the film as a teaching tool, but
through the course of his interviews found that
he was surprised at how contented the blacks
were during that time.
“There is not one of those people who is
angry,” Unks said. “That was a surprise. As
one of the black men I spoke to put it, ‘You
are born, you realize the situation and if you’ve
got any intelligence you deal with the situation
that’s there.’”
Unks said he planned to show the film to
the Northside community in Chapel Hill and
perhaps at his church, the Chapel of the Cross,
where he was also surprised to learn that several
of his interviewees attend.
Unks said anyone wishing to view the film
or use it in class can contact him at 962-9378 or
gunks@email.unc.edu. Anyone who wants a
copy to keep can purchase it for $15.
And there may be another project soon to come.
Encouraged by the success of this first proj-ect,
Unks and Gillenwater are already planning
another. The first integrated class at Chapel Hill
High School graduated in 1967 — the same year
that Unks arrived in Chapel Hill to teach. Unks
wants to talk to those students to find out if their
expectations of going to an integrated school,
both good and bad, matched their experiences.
He remains a teacher, after all, with more
students to surprise.
Unks paints picture of Chapel Hill before Brown v. Board of Education
“The Town Before Brown” was both a scholarly and technical collaboration between, from left, Gerald Unks, who
wrote and produced the film; Andrew Brawn, a technology support specialist with Information Technology Services
who served as the film editor; and Cary Gillenwater, a graduate student who co-produced the film and served as the
videographer. Still photographs were provided by the Library of Congress, the North Carolina Collection in Wilson
Library, Chapel Hill High School and the Northside Senior Center.
january 30, 2008 9
“The success of this campaign exceeded all
our expectations, again and again,” said Paul
Fulton, co-chair of the Carolina First Steering
Committee and member of the Board of Trustees.
The campaign received contributions from
more than 193,000 donors. The single largest
donor was the William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable
Trust and related Kenan entities and family mem-bers,
who combined to commit $69.9 million.
Overall, about $860 million (36 percent) came
from Carolina alumni, $894 million (38 percent)
came from corporations and foundations, and
the balance from friends of the University and
other organizations.
“The amount of participation shows the
depth and breadth of love for Carolina, and the
realization that new levels of excellence were
well within our reach,” said Steering Committee
Co-chair Charlie Shaffer.
Carolina First raised more than $960 million
in gifts and pledges for the endowment. Gifts,
which accounted for more than $500 million of
that total, combined with returns earned by the
UNC Investment Fund, have helped to raise
the endowment’s value to $2.2 billion.
The campaign increased emphasis on
private fundraising, said Steering Committee
Co-chair Mike Overlock. “If we want to compete
with the best private colleges and universities,
we cannot rely on state resources alone to meet
our needs,” he said.
Faculty salaries, research among top legislative priorities
The University’s target for faculty salaries
is the 80th percentile of peer institutions. To
make more progress, Carolina is seeking $16.6
million in the state’s 2008–09 expansion budget.
Chancellor James Moeser, in reviewing
budget priorities with the Board of Trustees
last week, said competitive salaries remained
critical to UNC’s success. The $16.6 million
request recognized the value that administra-tors
have placed in Carolina’s greatest asset —
faculty, he said.
UNC’s budget request was forwarded to
General Administration earlier this month
for consideration in the UNC Board of
Governors proposal for state legislators.
Carolina also sought $1 million in recurring
funds as part of a successful systemwide faculty
retention fund that already had a major impact
on campus. Moeser said the strategic impor-tance
of these funds could not be overstated.
The University asked for $2 million in re-curring
funds and $4 million in non-recurring
funds to expand the Distinguished Professor-ships
program, which leverages private gifts.
The three other legislative priorities fall
under the categories of research, engagement
and capital.
The University sought $10 million for
“commercialization gap funding.” Moeser
said the additional funds would close the gap
between the funded research and the licens-ing
of intellectual property. Applied research
is usually not funded by traditional sources.
The $3 million request for graduate
student recruitment and retention recognizes
the vital role that top graduate students play
in research, Moeser said. The money would
support up to 150 tuition remissions.
Also important to the state is the North
Carolina Research Campus in Kannapolis,
Moeser said. The University asked for $9.5
million in recurring funds and $4.5 million in
non-recurring funds. The money would fund
faculty salaries and benefits, support graduate
students and create a core lab facility.
Requests for capital projects include:
n $69 million to supplement the $30 million
previously appropriated for a Dental Sciences
Teaching and Learning Facility;
n $247 million to go with the $8 million
previously appropriated for the Biomedical
Research Imaging Facility; and
n $30 million toward the first phase of
Carolina North including a facility to
potentially house the School of Law.
Under engagement, Carolina is seeking:
n $2.5 million in recurring funds to
increase the number of K-12 science teachers
and to partner with public schools to support
the professional development of teachers;
n $15 million in recurring funds for the
Area Health Education Centers Program to
address the shortage of health-care workers;
to provide outreach support for indigent care;
to support medical school expansion through
regional UNC medical campuses in Asheville
and Charlotte; and infectious disease funding
to support global health initiatives; and
n $2 million in recurring funds to expand
the master of business administration degree
consulting assistance program, which would
serve up to 75 N.C. companies a year.
Trustees focus on
grad student aid
University trustees are focusing on improving
support for graduate students to compete with
peer campuses. They agree that will take money,
but are less sure about where it should come from.
After a lengthy discussion, board Chair Roger
Perry asked the administration to study the issue
and come back with a report on possible solu-tions
including more competitive stipends for
graduate teaching assistants.
The University Affairs Committee, chaired
by Trustee Rusty Carter, has devoted significant
time to the challenges facing graduate students.
Carter in November suggested that the
campus-based tuition increases graduate and
professional students will pay next year should
be earmarked to offer increased support to those
students with stipends and financial aid. Carter
said the move could have a dramatic impact in
one year. Trustees did not act on his proposal.
Raising faculty salaries to competitive levels has
been a long-standing trustee priority for which
the bulk of tuition revenues are used after 35
percent are reserved for need-based financial aid.
Trustee John Ellison said top students were
attracted to UNC’s graduate and professional
programs because of the financial package and
the quality and reputation of the programs,
something that could be maintained by attract-ing
and keeping a great faculty.
The discussion followed an extensive report
from Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost
Bernadette Gray Little and Holden Thorp,
dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, as well
as Linda Dykstra, dean of the Graduate School.
In 2006–07, for example, $168.6 million was
disbursed to graduate students: $47.4 million
from grant support; $42.7 million in loans and
work study; $19.8 million in teaching assistant
stipends; $27.4 million in research assistant/fel-lowship
stipends; $16.2 million in tuition remis-sions;
$9.6 million in in-state tuition awards; and
$5.3 million in health insurance benefits.
In research assistant stipends, Carolina did
slightly better in 2006–07 than its public peers.
Carolina’s average nine-month stipend was
$17,388, compared to $17,100 for public peers.
Perry cautioned against viewing this slight
advantage as “fool’s gold” because each school
or department competed for students within its
own subset of peer campuses.
Because each unit had its own set of recruitment
circumstances and challenges, Thorp said, arts and
sciences department chairs control spending the
money they receive for graduate student support.
BOT hears plans to address N.C. health needs
University administrators presented plans
to address both the health-care needs for the
state’s growing population and the shortage of
health-care practitioners in North Carolina.
With UNC Hospitals beds already between
98 percent and 100 percent full, the current
capacity cannot keep pace with patients’ needs
here in the fastest growing part of the state,
William L. Roper, dean of the School of
Medicine, vice chancellor for medical affairs
and chief executive officer of the UNC Health
Care System, told the trustees last week.
“We are jammed full all the time,” he said.
“We need to expand.”
A proposed expansion that would include a
new 320-bed patient bed tower and increased
research and academic facilities would
cost $732 million, with $406.5 million
coming from UNC Hospitals, Roper said.
The UNC Health Care System would ask
the state for the remaining $325.5 million.
Around $200 million would go for research
enhancements and $100 for changes to
academic facilities in Berryhill Hall.
In 2006, the North Carolina General
Assembly appropriated $3 million to the UNC
Health Care System to fund a master facility
plan to address the needs of the health-care
system and medical school over the next
decade. Last week, University trustees
approved the design for the plan.
In conjunction with meeting patient-care
needs in Chapel Hill, Roper mentioned a
proposed expansion of medical school enroll-ment
to address the state’s physician shortage,
particularly in rural and inner-city areas.
State and national medical organizations
predict a deficit of doctors by 2020. The four
medical schools in North Carolina graduate
around 440 medical students each year,
virtually the same number as 30 years ago.
By forming partnerships with regional
medical facilities in Asheville and Charlotte,
administrators said, Carolina could expand its
medical school enrollment from 160 to 230
first-year students. The school would phase in
the additional 70 students beginning in 2009.
Under the proposal, all medical students
would spend their first two years at Carolina
and their last two years at a regional campus —
20 students in Asheville and 50 in Charlotte.
All three campuses would share a common
curriculum and educational approach and
consistent evaluation methods.
To put the expansion in perspective,
East Carolina University’s medical school
graduates 70 students a year, Etta Pisano,
vice dean for academic affairs at Carolina’s
medical school, told the trustees’ University
Affairs Committee.
The expansion builds on the strong existing
relationship with AHEC, the Area Health Edu-cation
Centers network across the state, she said.
Creating the regional educational programs
also will require funding: $40 million in recur-ring
funds for additional faculty and staff and
$239 million in non-recurring funds for facilities
construction and renovation on the campuses.
Recurring funds needed will range from
$3.6 million in fiscal year 2009 to $40.2 million
in fiscal year 2015 when all three sites are at
full enrollment.
Still, this price tag is less than the cost of
building and operating a new medical school,
Pisano said.
The bottom line is, the state needs more
doctors, she said. “And if we don’t address this
shortage, I’m not sure anyone will do it.”
n
Carolina First from page 1
will assess how children living in rural poor
communities adjust to school.
Researchers will examine if the temperament
of infants and toddlers predicts early school
success or failure. Temperament was assessed
in the first three years of each child’s life
with home observations and physiological
measures of saliva cortisol by measuring
stress hormones in the children’s saliva
and heart rate.
Researchers also will examine for the first
time in rural, low-income communities how
academic achievement is affected by language
and cognitive skills and experiences before
formal schooling, the nature and quality
of the classroom instruction in the early
grades, parenting experiences and outside
school activities.
“This second phase of the Family Life
Project will be important in understanding
how the early experiences of young children
in rural communities predict children’s
academic and behavioral success in school,”
Vernon-Feagans said.
The Family Life Project began in 2002
with a $16.5 million grant from the National
Institute of Child Health and Human
Development at the National Institutes of
Health. This second grant is for five years.
For more information about the Family Life
Project, refer to www.fpg.unc.edu/~flp.
Grant from page 1
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Faculty/Staff News & Notes
Joyner to manage
HR functions for
faculty employment
Melanie Dawn Joyner has been appointed
special assistant to the provost and director of
academic personnel. She replaces Sylvia White
who retires Jan. 31 after 33 years of service.
Joyner will provide management and
supervision of the human resources functions
that govern the employment of faculty. She
will work with University administrators and
managers on faculty recruitment, appoint-ment,
training, promotion and tenure, policy
interpretation and development, academic
personnel issues, and will work closely with
Elmira Mangum, the senior associate provost.
Certified as a Professional in Human
Resources, Joyner has worked almost exclusively
in the human resources field — from positions
in local and state government to positions in
corporate and private industry. She was most
recently employed as director of human resources
at Carol Woods Retirement Community.
Joyner attended Michigan State University
for post-graduate work and Virginia Union
University for undergraduate work in chemistry.
Moeser honored for
service to humanity
Chancellor James Moeser received
the Martin Luther King Jr. Citizenship
Award from the Martin Luther King
University/Community Planning Corp.
at the group’s Jan. 20 memorial banquet.
The award goes to citizens in “recog-nition
of enduring service to humanity
by word and by deed.” Moeser spoke on
behalf of the University at the event,
which celebrates the legacy of King in
promoting respect and human dignity.
Archie Ervin, associate provost for
diversity and multicultural affairs, made
the award presentation. He cited Moeser’s
contributions to North Carolina and
Orange County in promoting diversity
and increasing access for students to
higher education.
Ervin said it was unusual for this award to
be presented to someone after a relatively
short period of service to Chapel Hill
and Carrboro. He said Moeser was
selected because of the significant impact
of his leadership for both the state and
local communities.
Among the University’s achievements
during Moeser’s tenure has been the Caro-lina
Covenant, which provides a debt-free
education to qualified low-income students.
The chancellor also has championed
the University’s longtime commitment
to diversity and an open intellectual com-munity.
He appointed a campus task
force that produced the University’s first
diversity plan, which is being implemented.
Former law school dean recognized for UNC service
Her commitment to making Carolina a bet-ter
and fairer place has defined Judith Wegner’s
more than 25 years of service to the University.
For her work as a
faculty leader and for-mer
dean of the School
of Law, Wegner was
honored Jan.18 with
the General Alumni
Association’s Faculty
Service Award. The
award, established in
1990, honors faculty
members who have
performed outstanding
service to the University or the association.
Wegner, who came to Carolina in 1981,
was dean of the law school from 1989 to 1999,
after she worked as a teacher, legal scholar
and associate dean of the school. From 2003
to 2006, she served as faculty chair and was
the first former dean in more than 40 years to
hold that post.
Wegner has taught and written about land
use, property law, state and local government
law and the rights of disabled persons. She
helped create the University’s Public Service
Roundtable, a volunteer group of faculty,
staff and students that worked to establish the
UNC Center for Public Service. She chaired
the Committee on the Status of Women and
co-chaired then-Chancellor Paul Hardin’s
Committee on Community and Diversity.
As law school dean, Wegner diversified
the school’s faculty and student body. As
faculty chair, she addressed faculty reten-tion
and graduate student issues and ensured
that logo licensing revenues would support
merit-based academic scholarships.
“She believes deeply in the public mission
of the University,” said Anne Whisnant,
director of research, communications
and programs for the Office of Faculty
Governance. “She has a strong sense of justice
and a sense that things can be better than they
are. She’s an incredible dynamo about almost
anything she takes on.”
Wegner is a delegate to the faculty assembly
of the UNC system. She was president
of the Association of American Law Schools
and also helped start the African Law Initiative,
an exchange program for students in 16
American law schools and eight law schools
in Africa.
Her previous UNC honors include the
Mary Turner Lane Award and the Cornelia
Phillips Spencer Bell Award, which recognize
contributions to women on campus, and
induction into the Order of the Golden Fleece,
UNC’s highest honorary society. She also
received the Order of the Long Leaf Pine, the
highest honor the governor can bestow on a
North Carolina citizen.
Ten faculty begin spring IAH fellowships
Ten faculty members are beginning spring
fellowships at the Institute for the Arts and
Humanities (IAH). For the first time, UNC
faculty members will be joined by a professor
from Duke University as part of a new faculty
exchange between the IAH and Duke’s Franklin
Humanities Institute.
“IAH Fellowships provide time for faculty
to focus on specific research projects while
exchanging their ideas with a diverse group of
colleagues,” said John McGowan, IAH director
and The Ruel W. Tyson Jr. Distinguished
Professor of Humanities. “The conversations
at the fellowship table create an intellectual
community from which cutting-edge research
and good teaching emerges.”
The Faculty Fellows, including two recipients
of Chapman Family Faculty Fellowships, and
the research topics they will pursue are:
n Karen Booth, associate professor, Cur-riculum
in Women’s Studies, “Reading AZT:
The Cultural Politics of Global Medicine”
(Chapman Fellow);
n Marianne Gingher, associate professor,
Department of English and Comparative
Literature, “A Woman at Play: The Coming
of Age of a Writer” (a memoir) and “Speedos:
An Anthology of Short Short Stories by
60 N.C. Writers” (editing and collecting)
(Chapman Fellow);
n Banu Gokariksel, assistant professor,
Department of Geography and Curriculum in
International and Area Studies, “The Urban
Spaces of Modern Muslim Women, Veiling as
Fashion and Political Activism”;
n Perry Hall, associate professor, Department
of African and Afro-American Studies, “Finding
Fault: Lines and Sites of African American
Cultural Production”;
n Jennifer Ann Ho, assistant professor,
Department of English and Comparative
Literature, “Passing Through Asian America:
Mixed-Race Asian Americans in Late 20th-
Century Culture”;
n Dale Hutchinson, professor, Department
of Anthropology, “Global Expansion, Social
and Economic Transformation, and Health in
the Colonial New World”;
n Laurie Maffly-Kipp, associate professor,
Department of Religious Studies, “Hyper-Patri-otism
and Heresy: A History of Mormonism”;
n Michael McFee, professor, Department of
English and Comparative Literature, Creative
Writing Program, “New Poems and Essays”;
n Eric M. Myers, professor of Judaic
Studies and director of the Center for Jewish
Studies, Duke University, “Israel: The Archaeo-logical
Heritage”;
n Jocelyn Neal, assistant professor, Depart-ment
of Music, “Individuality, Race, Gender, and
Fan Identity in the Country Dance Hall”; and
n Krista Perreira, assistant professor,
Department of Public Policy, “Latino Immigra-tion
and the American South.”
For more information, refer to www.
iah.unc.edu.
wegner
Decorat ions & Distinctions
Judith Benowitz
Ramon Sotelo
Jody Bare
Xiaoping Wu
Benowitz, Sotelo, Bare and Wu, all
staff and associates of the Friday Center,
were honored recently with 2007 Friday
Center Awards.
Benowitz received the Best All-Around
Award for her exemplary commitment to
the center’s mission and goals and outstand-ing
service to the center and its clients.
Sotelo received the Extra Mile Award in
recognition of his initiative, creative prob-lem-
solving and performance above and
beyond the call of duty.
Bare received the Sunshine Award,
recognizing her positive attitude,
promotion of team-building activities, and
exceptional customer service.
Wu, who works with Information
Technology Services, received the Center
Service Award, recognizing outstanding
effort by an individual or organization that
provides service to the center.
Barbara Wildemuth
Professor in the School of Information and
Library Science, Wildemuth has been elected
to a three-year term as director-at-large for
the American Society of Information Science
and Technology (ASIS&T).
The ASIS&T
board governs the
organization of ap-proximately
4,000
information science
and library profes-sionals
in more than
50 countries world-wide.
The organiza-tion’s
mission is to
“advance the infor-mation
sciences and
See Decorations, page 15
wildemuth
january 30, 2008 11
Human Resources
Use online benefits resources to promote overall health
If you are covered under the State Health
Plan, remember that the Comprehensive Major
Medical Plan (CMMP) will be eliminated July 1.
If you are still enrolled in this plan, you may
want to start to review other available options.
Refer to the State Health Plan’s Web site at
www.shpnc.org. There will be an annual
enrollment this spring during which you
can switch to one of the Preferred Provider
Organization (PPO) plans.
Prescription drug tips
Register online with Medco, the pharmacy
provider used by Blue Cross Blue Shield, at www.
medco.com. If you use mail-order prescriptions,
you can check on prescription status, reorder
prescriptions and locate a pharmacy. In addi-tion,
you can price medications and use a new
tool called “My RX Choices” that lets you find
if there are lower-cost options for prescriptions
you use that you can discuss with your doctor.
Blue Cross Blue Shield online
resources
Register online with Blue Cross Blue Shield,
www.bcbsnc.com, to find doctors and hospi-tals,
check claims, request ID cards and review
benefits. You can also use the health resource
section for estimates on health services and
find discounts for services not provided under
the State Health Plan (such as alternative
medicines or dietary supplements). To register,
you will need your subscriber ID card, your
date of birth and your zip code.
Also, check out the Blue Points program.
Getting fit and staying healthy involves more
than exercise — it is about learning what
“healthy” means and making healthier life-style
choices. The physical activity incentive
program has been updated to include ways
for members to earn prizes for participating
in wellness activities, such as signing up for
an online wellness program or understanding
healthy cholesterol and blood pressure levels.
The Blue Points program also awards
points for signing up for specific wellness
programs. The latest health information and
interactive tools, including meal planners, a
BMI (body mass index) calculator, exercise
demos and fitness diaries, are also available.
Supplemental retirement plan
limits for 2008
The maximum annual limits that you can
contribute to supplemental retirement plans
for 2008 are:
You can contribute to all three supplemen-tal
plans; however, contributions to the 401(k)
and 403(b) plans are totaled together to meet
the annual limits, while the 457(b) plan has its
own annual limit.
For example, in 2008 you can contribute
$15,500 to a 401(k) and/or 403(b), plus an
additional $15,500 to the 457(b). If you
are age 50 or older, you can contribute an
additional $5,000.
Additionally, employees with 15 or more
years of University service can contribute up
to an additional $3,000 to the 403(b) if they
have not contributed at the maximum levels
in prior years. Provisions under the 457(b)
provide opportunities to defer up to twice
the contribution limit in the last three years
before normal retirement.
You should contact your plan vendor to
review your limit, and if necessary, complete a
new Salary Reduction Agreement.
PLAN ANNUAL LIMIT
401(k) or Roth 401(k) $15,500
403(b) $15,500
457(b) $15,500
Catch Up
(Age 50 & Over)
$5,000
Adverse weather policy always in effect
The adverse weather policy is always in effect.
Any time employees (both SPA and EPA non-faculty)
cannot attend work due to a significant
weather-related event, the policy applies.
This includes having to stay home
to care for a child out of school due to
adverse weather.
Human Resources has detailed adverse
weather information available at hr.unc.edu/
hottopics/adverseweather. This includes
resources to determine the University’s cur-rent
adverse weather condition, a link to the
Department of Public Safety’s Web page and
access to the adverse weather leave policies.
The University uses three adverse weather
operating conditions:
n Condition Level I: “Normal” weather
conditions, so the University is open on a
normal schedule. Staff can still navigate the
campus and local areas safely.
n Condition Level II: “Severe” weather,
including heavy snow or ice and/or heavy
accumulations, so public transportation is
limited. Classes are canceled, but University
offices are open.
n Condition Level III: “Extreme” weather,
such as unusually large accumulations of
snow, ice or sleet. Law enforcement advises
no one to travel except in an emergency. The
University has been closed.
Non-emergency employees are responsible for
their regular duties during Conditions I and II.
They must account for any time missed
and decide about coming to work based on
personal safety. Only emergency employees
must report to work during Condition
III events.
Announcements about the closing of state
government offices due to adverse weather do
not apply to the University.
For details about the University’s current
condition, employees can call the University’s
Adverse Weather and Emergency Phone Line
at 843-1234 or visit the UNC main home
page, www.unc.edu, for updates.
Carolina Kids Camp, a summer
day camp for school-age children ages
6 through 12, will begin accepting
applications Feb. 11 on a first-come,
first-served basis for the 2008 camp.
The camp is open to children of
University permanent employees
and students and children of UNC
Health Care and General Alumni
Association employees.
The 2008 camp, open to children who
will be in grades 1–7 this fall, will run
from June 16 through Aug. 8 (with no
camp on July 4).
All sessions will last one week. Carolina
Kids Camp is located near Fetzer Gym
and the Frank Porter Graham Student
Union and operates Monday–Friday,
with drop-off beginning at 7:30 a.m. and
pick-up by 5:30 p.m.
Campers are able to enjoy the gyms,
playing fields, swimming pool and
other campus resources including group
visits to campus facilities and visits from
special presenters.
Carolina Kids Camp will be unable
to offer the Junior Counselor program
this summer.
Limited camp scholarships are available.
Scholarship applications will be accepted
Feb. 11–29.
To download an application, refer to
hr.unc.edu/employees/spa-employ-ees/
workfamily/childcare/kidscamp.
For more information on Carolina Kids
Camp, contact Work/Life Programs at
962-6008 or worklife@unc.edu.
Carolina Kids
Camp accepting
applications Feb. 11
sta r hels RECIPIENTS
Biology
Shirley Hart
Clinical Affairs
Patti Harris
Dawn Teer
Debbie Thompson
Dental Ecology
Mary Hinrichs
Daniella Onofrio
Dental Faculty Practice
Teresa Brown
Eric Gilchrist
Dental Research Center
Marisa Sears
Darrin Simmons
Diagnostic Sciences
Donna Barnes
LeeAnn Smith
Endodontics
Wanda Hess
Sarah Waltz
Environmental Science
and Engineering
Leonard Collins
Oksana Kosyk
Environment, Health and Safety
Eric Zack
Housekeeping Services
Lloyd Bell
Savonne Green
Teretha Rone
Malee Silver
Naval Science
Janis Carter
Ophthalmology
Yvonne Dodson
Matthew O’Neal
Office of the Provost, Health Affairs
Margaret Anderson
Operative Dentistry
Betty Cates
Janet Crutchfield
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
Win Aye
Thet Aung
Orthodontics
Tamara Davis
Wendy Lamm
Pediatric Dentistry
Lillibet Elling
Azedah Rohanian Perry
Philosophy
Lance Westerlund
Physics and Astronomy
Beverly Loftin
Steve Medlin
Radiology
Michele Clark
University Library
Susan Wrenn
WUNC Radio
Susan Anderson
Nancy Brookshire
Laura Leslie
12 University Gazette
Fire-safe cigarettes to become the norm
In the summer, Ernest Grant sees skin
burned by outdoor grills, fireworks, brush
fires and motor vehicle collisions. In the
winter, the burns are from wood stoves and
kerosene heaters.
But, he said, there are certain types of
serious burns that he treats all year long in the
Jaycee Burn Center at UNC Hospitals, and
those are the ones caused by
fires started from cigarettes.
Grant, who is a nurse in
the Jaycee Burn Center, said
cigarette fires happen to the
young and old. An elderly
person smoking while using
an oxygen machine can eas-ily
become relaxed enough
to drop a burning cigarette.
Other victims doze off
before stubbing out their
cigarettes, igniting their
clothing or furniture.
Older smokers smoke at
only half the rate of younger
adults, and yet they are
more than three times more likely to die in
cigarette-related fires. And it is not just the
smokers who are injured or killed in fires
caused by cigarettes, Grant said — smokers’
children are most often the other victims.
But thanks to Grant, his colleagues and
the results of research from Carolina’s
Injury Prevention Research Center,
smokers in North Carolina will soon be
buying only fire-safe cigarettes.
Unlike regular cigarettes, fire-safe
cigarettes have two or three bands of less-porous
paper wrapped underneath the
normal paper rolled around the tobacco. After
you light a regular cigarette, it will slowly
burn on its own all the way to the filter.
Unless the cigarette is sitting in an ashtray or
held safely away from its surroundings, the
burning tobacco can easily ignite flammable
clothing or furniture.
But the bands in fire-safe cigarettes act as
speed bumps, allowing the cigarette to burn
only until it reaches a band; then it extinguishes
itself. The paper bands used in fire-safe
cigarettes do not affect the taste or the cost,
Grant said.
So Grant teamed up with his colleagues at
UNC Hospitals and other Carolina researchers
to start talks with state legislators, presenting
the evidence that cigarettes account for most
of the 100 or so fire-related deaths per year in
North Carolina. And according to the Injury
Prevention Research Center, using fire-safe
cigarettes could prevent 50 to 60 fire-related
deaths a year in North Carolina alone.
In 2005, there were more than 7,500
house fires in North Carolina. And of the
many cigarette-burn patients Grant sees,
most have been hurt in house fires. Even
if people are lucky enough to escape such a
blaze unburned, Grant said, “you might be
out of a house for while.”
Gr ant ’ s a rgument s
worked. According to new
legislation in North Carolina,
come 2010, every packet
of cigarettes behind every
convenience store counter
in the state should bear a
fire-safe stamp.
This legislation has
been a long time coming,
Grant said. Tobacco com-panies
have known for
decades how to make fire-safe
cigarettes, but only
in the past few years have
individual states begun to
pass legislation requiring the companies to
manufacture them.
In 2007, the North Carolina-based RJ
Reynolds Tobacco Company — the second-largest
tobacco company in the country —
announced that it would begin producing
only fire-safe cigarettes by the end of 2009.
For the biggest tobacco-producing state in the
country, Grant said, that is a pretty big deal.
Provided by the Division of
Research and Economic Development.
Editor: Neil Caudle
Writer: Margarite Nathe
If a fire-safe cigarette is left unattended, the burning tobacco will reach
one of these banded “speed bumps” and self-extingish.
illus t r at ion: john roman, courtesy of coalition for fire-safe cigarettes
FYI RESEARCH
Chinese, Carolina
doctors to examine
health-care challenges
Cardiac care, smoking, HIV AIDS and health-care
policies in the United States and China
will be discussed during the “Health Crisis and
Disparities: Working Together on Solutions”
forum in the FedEx Global Education Center
(Jan. 30) and Carolina Club (Jan. 31, Feb. 1).
Because China is home to about one-fifth of
the world’s population, partnering with Chinese
researchers gives Carolina
doctors access to more
cases of illness from which
to learn, said Myron
Cohen, J. Herbert Bate
Distinguished Professor of
Medicine, Microbiology
and Public Health and
director of the UNC
Institute for Global
Health and Infectious Dis-eases,
the forum sponsor.
“Diseases don’t respect borders,” said Cohen,
also the associate vice chancellor for global
health in the School of Medicine. “We are
working together to come up with solutions that
will help both countries.”
Forum co-sponsors are the UNC Center for
AIDS Research, the Research Triangle pharma-ceutical
firm Quintiles Transnational, and the
organizations Family Health International and
Research Triangle Regional Partnership.
Peking University Vice President Hai Wen
and Chancellor James Moeser will chair the
forum, a follow-up to the first such event in
December 2006 at Peking University in Beijing.
William L. Roper, dean of the School of
Medicine, vice chancellor for medical af-fairs
and chief executive officer of the UNC
Health Care System, and Gordon Liu,
chair of the department of health economics
and management at
Peking University, will
speak about health policy
reform in the United
States and China. Lui, a
key figure in health policy
reform efforts in China,
is principal investigator
on the largest study of
urban health insurance
ever conducted in China.
As China’s economy
grows, instances of pollution, obesity, smok-ing
and heart disease have increased. The fo-rum
will feature a comparison of cardiovas-cular
care in the United States and China by
research partners Zhao Dong, deputy director
of the Beijing Institute of Heart, Lung and Blood
Vessel Diseases at Beijing Anzhen Hospital,
and Sid Smith, director of the UNC Center for
Cardiovascular Science and Medicine and former
president of the American Heart Association.
A panel discussion moderated by Adam Gold-stein,
professor of family medicine and director
of the UNC Tobacco Prevention and Evalua-tion
Program, will probe tobacco control in the
United States and China.
In China today, an estimated 300 million
people smoke. This is just under the total U.S.
population, where an estimated 25.9 million
men (23.9 percent) and 20.7 million women
(18.1 percent) smoke.
For the full forum schedule, refer to www.
pkuuncglobalhealthforum.org.
cohen
roper
New philanthropy program
inspires Carolina students
Carolina students have always been active
in supporting a variety of community
organizations. This semester, they will have a
hands-on opportunity to learn what is involved
in managing the philanthropic process.
Carolina was one of five universities selected
to participate in a new student-directed chari-table
giving program that aims to inspire young
people to become involved with philanthropy.
Students4Giving, launched by the Fidelity
Charitable Gift Fund and Campus Compact,
will provide $15,000 to each school, to be
overseen by students participating in nonprofit
and philanthropy courses during the spring
semester. The students will recommend which
causes and qualified public charities to support
and how to invest the money for future
charitable grants.
In addition to Carolina, other participants
are Boston University, California State
University in Fresno, Portland (Ore.) Com-munity
College and Whitworth University in
Spokane, Wash. Thirty-five universities and
colleges nationwide submitted proposals.
Throughout the semester, the Gift Fund
and Campus Compact will provide access to
charitable planning consultants and guidance
and education on charitable giving topics,
civic volunteerism and giving through a
donor-advised fund.
“We are thrilled to be selected to participate
in the Students4Giving program,” said Lynn
Blanchard, director of the Carolina Center for
Public Service. “Our students are committed to
supporting community organizations through
the philanthropic process; strengthening their
learning through an actual giving program that
they manage and is connected to their course
work and provides a real-world experience that
will benefit them throughout their lives.”
A donor-advised fund program allows
individuals, private foundations and businesses
to make irrevocable contributions to the
public charity sponsoring the program. The
money is allocated to a specific account,
known as the donor-advised fund, and account
holders or advisers may recommend grants to
qualified recipients.
Campus Compact is a coalition of more
than 1,100 college and university presidents
who work to fulfill the civic purposes of higher
education. The Fidelity® Charitable Gift
FundSM has the largest donor-advised fund
program in the country and promotes
philanthropy by providing programs that
encourage charitable giving.
One of Szary’s chief responsibilities has
been to merge these individual collections
into an integrated special collections
library that better serves the needs of scholars
and students.
It is his technical expertise that Szary will
bring to the Mellon grant project, along
with his role in overseeing the library’s
newly established Carolina Digital Library
and Archives. The award-winning Docu-menting
the American South digital library
is now one of the flagship programs of the
new department.
“A good part of our role will be to provide
the underlying infrastructure, the digital pub-lishing
platform, if you will, that we also need
for our own purposes at the library,” Szary said.
Szary said there is much the University
Library and the Southern Oral History Pro-gram
can learn from UNC Press in terms of
editing and selecting materials and tailoring
products to fit a market need.
“The technical developments are going to
be challenging but the grant will also help the
library and the oral history program build a
new model of working together with the press
in new and exciting ways,” Szary said. “We’ve
always had a good relationship with the press,
Mellon from page 4
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january 30, 2008 13
could improve research productivity,” he said.
The council also discussed amending the
Faculty Code to remove a provision passed in
2003 allowing faculty chairs to be elected to two
consecutive terms.
In response to a request from Faculty Chair
Joe Templeton, the Committee on University
Government consulted with Templeton and
five previous faculty chairs as well as other
faculty members and administrators.
The committee recommended reinstating the
former provision, which would limit the chair to a
three-year term without eligibility for immediate
reelection. A former chair could be elected again
at a later time.
Five years ago, the committee favored the
possibility of back-to-back terms because that
was consistent with other committees and could
ensure continuity, said Michael Lienesch, pro-fessor
of political science and committee chair.
“Besides, we assumed that no one would ever
choose to serve two consecutive terms,” he said.
The committee felt that the proposed change
would encourage broader faculty participa-tion
and allow for greater diversity of faculty
experience and views. It would also prevent a
reelection advantage for incumbents and be an
optimal way for the faculty chair to be the chief
advocate for faculty priorities, Lienesch said.
Instituting the change would require calling
a meeting of the general faculty and reading the
amendment twice before a vote could be taken,
said Joe Ferrell, secretary of the faculty.
remain strong without the airport. Medical Air
Operations, the transportation arm of AHEC,
would remain at Horace Williams until the Inno-vation
Center was ready for occupancy, Moeser
has said. After that, MedAir would move to a
new hangar built for it at Raleigh-Durham
Airport. The University has also pledged to
work with local, state and federal agencies to help
create a general aviation authority in southern
Orange County that could serve AHEC.
One area of agreement between trustees and
council members emerged during the course of
the day: Both are interested in seeing the Inno-vation
Center make a bold statement. Trustees
want a design for what has been described as
Carolina North’s “front door” that leans more
toward the dramatic than the nondescript.
Perry, for instance, said he loved the soaring
glass entrance to the building and the court-yard
that blended interior and exterior space.
On the other hand, he thought the flanking
office wings lacked the kind of pizzazz that a
signature building called for.
The full board also devoted nearly an
hour to reviewing and critiquing the cur-rent
design. The discussion ended with a call
for University planners to put in place uni-fying
guidelines for all of Carolina North.
To view the meeting, refer to chapelhill.
granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_
id=3&clip_id=250.
compliance issues are similar from one institu-tion
to another, Tenney said. “The challenge
is learning the people who are responsible for
the well-being of the institution and develop-ing
an understanding of what is going on.”
Ongoing challenges
Resources are always a challenge, Tenney
said, particularly those needed to monitor
the research process from start to finish.
Developing appropriate internal controls and
a feedback mechanism to ensure that trials
are conducted exactly as they were proposed
to the IRB or IACUC is on her wish list for
the future.
Another challenge is protecting the security
of information in increasingly complex
organizations, where a seemingly simple breach
could hamper the entire research process.
“When people provide disclosures,
it is our responsibility to protect that
information as if it were any other type
of critical personnel information,”
Tenney said. “Sherrie and I are mindful that
whenever we talk to someone, there are all
kinds of strictures with regard to privacy.”
Because compliance is a shared
responsibility, she said, the University has
developed many resources to help researchers
and administrators.
The Office of Clinical Trials offers a com-prehensive
training series (research.unc.edu/
oct) for clinical research coordinators, the
administrators who run clinical trials. “It truly
is an exceptional training series,” Settle said.
Then, through the outsourced University
Compliance Line, people can express
anonymous, confidential concerns about
financial, privacy or environment, health and
safety aspects of campus research by calling
866-294-8688 or filing an online report at
www.ethicspoint.com.
Questions about research compliance can
be directed to the Research Compliance
Office, 843-9953.
Compliance from page 3
Since the Energy-Efficient Lighting
Policy went into effect last September, the
University has been working to replace all
incandescent light bulbs with the more
energy-efficient compact fluorescent lamps.
The compact fluorescent lamps (CFL) use
one-quarter as much electricity to create
the same amount of light, produce
less heat and last up to 10 times
longer than the incandescent
bulbs. They are designed to fit
fixtures that use conventional
screw-in bulbs, such as desk or
floor lamps.
To help departments across
campus make the switch,
the Sustainability Office has
purchased 4,000 CFLs and will
supply them at no charge as
long as supplies last.
“Fundamentally, using the
CFLs is the right thing to do,
so we are making this one-time
offer to help get people started,”
said Warren Jochem, energy
conservation manager. “Our goal
is to replace all incandescent bulbs
on campus by Jan. 31, but we will be
glad to provide the CFLs past that date
as long as we have them.”
In the past, he said, the color of the CFL
light was too bright to suit many people. But
the Sustainability Office has tested a variety
of CFLs to find an acceptable replacement in
terms of color and brightness for the 60-watt
incandescent bulbs.
To take advantage of the free CFLs,
departmental facility managers or their
designees should get a count of the total
number of bulbs needed and stop by
the Facilities Services Store to pick
them up. Only desk or floor
lamps that use a conventional
screw-in bulb should be in-cluded
in the count. Facilities
Services will replace bulbs
for ceiling and wall fixtures.
“We ask that people
dispose of the incandescent
bulbs so they are not reused,”
Jochem said. “The energy
savings associated with the
CFL pays for the replacement
in a matter of months.”
As the CFLs burn out,
information about sources for
replacement lamps will be posted
on the Sustainability Office Web
site, sustainability.unc.edu.
“We are working with the
purchasing office to make CFLs avail-able
through Staples online,” Jochem said.
The Facilities Services Store is located
inside the General Storeroom building at 111
Airport Drive. For information about using
CFLs, call 962-7283.
Free compact fluorescent
lamps available on campus
Faculty Council from page 3
Carolina North from page 5
Her 15 minutes of fame
stretched to two nights. That
is how long it took for UNC’s
Rebecca Knickmeyer —
a postdoctoral fellow in the
psychiatry department — to
go from being an impres-sive
$20,001 winner one
night on the popular game
show “Jeopardy!” to losing
her title the next when she
stumbled over a Daily Double
question and never recov-ered.
Knickmeyer’s Jan. 15
and 16 appearances were
taped in Los Angeles at the
end of October.
answer: who is rebecca knickmeyer?
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UNC system research to help shape state’s economic future
Carolina researchers will collaborate with
their counterparts at 12 other UNC system
campuses and several community colleges and
private universities to undertake research with
strong economic development potential.
Through grant awards totaling more than
$3.8 million, these research efforts could also
provide real solutions to problems facing the
state and lead to the creation of new jobs.
The awards include $3 million appropriated
by the North Carolina General Assembly for
research on North Carolina’s economic future
for proposals in biotechnology, nanotechnol-ogy,
optics, health care, natural products,
environmental science and marine science.
The funded projects, which were selected
from 35 proposals, leverage more than
$4.4 million in private and federal funding.
Carolina is one of nine “lead” campuses
receiving grant awards.
The awards coincide with the completion
of a months-long series of forums asking
people across North Carolina to share their
needs and frustrations and to help identify ways
in which the UNC system can address prob-lems
during the next 20 years. Last month,
the UNC Tomorrow Commission released
draft recommendations that included strong
support for more direct UNC system involve-ment
in shaping the state’s economic future.
Carolina researchers will lead efforts to
enhance regional water resource management
(contact: Gregory Characklis, associate profes-sor
of environmental sciences and engineer-ing),
establish a program aimed at increasing
diversity among people involved in clinical
translations research (contact: Margaret
Dardess, associate vice chancellor for strategic
alliances) and develop multi-functional
biomedical devices for pediatric patients
(contact: Keith Kocis, professor of pediatrics).
In addition, Carolina researchers are
involved in efforts to develop a prototype
biochemical sensor, miniaturized to chip
scale; explore the juncture of the textiles and
nanotechnology fields; and develop an
environmental monitoring platform in the
southern Pamlico Sound.
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Debra Kent dies
Dec. 21 at 55
Debra Kent, who served as the director
of development and communications with
Health Services L